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The deputies eliminated a controversial measure from the draft Social Security funds, aimed toward limiting overruns in medical doctors’ charges, that are rising sharply based on a number of studies. This article within the textual content places liberal medical doctors in turmoil. Several unions introduced a strike at first of January in opposition to this measure. It would enable the federal government to extend by decree a contribution paid by medical doctors on their charge dietary supplements (3.25% at present).

The predominant representatives of liberal medical doctors denounce a “endangerment” of personal medication, notably in sector 2 (settlement with Health Insurance, which permits these excesses), whereas sure costs for procedures reimbursed by Health Insurance have been blocked for years.

The normal rapporteur of the textual content, Thibault Bazin (LR), criticized the measure, which goals “indiscriminately all doctors in sector 2, whatever the extent of the excesses, (…) whether or not they participate in ongoing care, whatever their specialty”. With this extra contribution, “Doctors are going to increase their excess prices” to compensate, mutual insurance coverage will enhance “the prices of their contracts”And, “in the end, it’s the users who will be penalized”added Jean-François Rousset (Renaissance).

The modification eradicating the article from the draft funds was adopted with the votes of the deputies Renaissance, Horizons, LR, RN and their Ciottist allies, in addition to the communists and independents LIOT. The PS, LFI and Les Ecologists voted in opposition to. The MoDem deputies have been divided. For the socialist Jérôme Guedj, it is a “modest incentive to limit fee overruns” going “in the right direction”.

The Minister of Health, Stéphanie Rist, identified “the very increasing rise in overruns in recent years”who represented “4.5 billion euros in 2024”. “These excesses have therefore led the government to propose taxation of excesses. But I say it, today, my intention is not to penalize this sector 2”she added, saying “hear the professionals”. She stated she needed to begin discussions “in the coming weeks under the responsibility of the Health Insurance Fund, with doctors and patient associations” And “complementary organisms”.