The association of rural mayors is asking that patients who cannot find an attending physician be exempt from the new emergency patient package.
Additional headache for emergency services at the start of the year: making non-hospitalized patients pay an outstanding charge of € 19.61, unless they can prove that their mutual fund covers it. In the medical deserts, there is ” double sentence “, Alarms Cyril Cibert, mayor of Chenevelles and president of the association of rural mayors in Vienne. ” We ask that those who can no longer find an attending physician, and who find themselves for lack of anything better to clog the emergencies, be exonerated ! »
The city council fears that all mutuals do not support this Patient Emergency Package (FPU), not to mention the 3 million French people who are not covered by complementary health insurance. ” Most doctors are overbooked, as you can see, insists Cyril Cibert. They often no longer even take new patients, for whom emergencies remain the only recourse solution. »
Published on January 4 at the national level, the appeal of the association of rural mayors is also relayed in the Sarthe and the Hautes-Pyrénées, without response, for the time being, from the government.
This is a major subject that we do not hear at all in this presidential campaign, and that is what interests the French – not the Kärcher.
Cyril Cibert, president of rural mayors (86)
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The public authorities have so far provided no response to rural mayors. ” Nobody says anything, laments the mayor of Chenevelles. The more departments there are, the more hope we have that things will move ».
Verification made, it turns out that this FPU has not yet been claimed at the Poitiers CHRU. No news either at the hospital of Saintes, in Charente-Maritime, of this package which was yet to come into force on January 1.
“Finally, this new system will only apply from February 1, 2022”, understands an insurer online, which evokes a delay requested by the Federation of Hospitals of France to set up this package. Neither the FHF nor the Ministry of Health were able to confirm this Monday.
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