Medical Deserts: Are We Talking About Politics’ Responsibility?

"You don't like your job, you don't like your patients!" This is one of the indictments heard by representatives of private doctors during their hearings with the deputies of the "transpartisan" working group against medical deserts, before the vote on the Garot bill . The latter was immediately hailed as "historic." "Finally! After three years of fighting, we voted: the regulation of the installation... and the return of out-of-hours care," tweeted Damien Maudet, LFI deputy for Haute-Vienne, on Wednesday, May 7. And indeed, on the political level, it is a victory. Succeeding in presenting doctors, whom we applauded five years ago as they faced Covid without protection, as corporatist egoists huddled together on the Côte d'Azur, is a victory. To ignore the responsibility of policies that for forty years destroyed the French health system in the name of ultra-liberal economic dogmas according to which reducing the number of doctors would reduce the social cost and increase the attractiveness of the country.