Should we force doctors, especially general practitioners, to settle in the countryside and medical deserts in general? This is one of the 20 proposals made by the Association France Assos Santé to presidential candidates, “to overhaul the healthcare access model” and fight against medical deserts.
Doctors should no longer be given authorization to settle where there are already enough of them.
Guest of France Bleu Limousin this Wednesday morning, the president of France Assos Santé in New Aquitaine, Patrick Charpentier, indeed indicated that he was “for an obligation of doctors in under-resourced areas“.
“Do we have to wait until we are at the bottom of the hole for the government to take strong measures, when we are already in a situation where a good number of citizens do not have general practitioners, do not have certain specialists ?” wondered Patrick Charpentier. “We must act as quickly as possible, and follow this evolution, with the eyes and the evaluation of French citizens, at the level of the territories where they reside.“, continued, considering moreover “that doctors should no longer be given authorization to settle where there are already enough of them, i.e. well-equipped or even over-equipped areas“. For this, he wants the “doctors of tomorrow”, who will soon be leaving their studies, to look at the care offered in desertified areas, with the formulas that are already operational in certain places, such as houses for example. health.
A single regime and elimination of excess fees
Asked also about France Assos Santé’s idea of a “Grande Sécu” or a “Super Sécu”, that is to say a single health insurance scheme, Patrick Charpentier noted a “quarantine of special regimes at the level of our social security, so we need a single, more united scheme, which covers 100% of health expenses, the relevance of which has been proven”, which according to him passes by “the elimination of excess fees, which today represent two-thirds of expenses, and the maintenance of a dignified, innovative care basket, designed to adapt to the needs of each according to their medical profile” he indicated.
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