2024-10-17 02:30:00
UOnce again, the question of the abolition of State Health Assistance (AME) returns to the public debate and there are numerous arguments put forward by those who want to die. For some, “access is too unlimited” (Bruno Retailleau), for others it shouldn’t be “We are a totem, we are a taboo” (Michel Barnier).
From then on everything is fine, without numbers or reason. Rather than arguments based on facts, we hear counter observations: “there are abuses that must be repressed”, “scammers”, “foreigners who come to France to seek treatment” OR “having your ears glued back together”. However, only half of those who could benefit from this help use it.
The issue of the AME must be addressed in the light of the fundamental texts to which our country adheres and which are authoritative: the protection of health for all (preamble of the 1946 Constitution), the objective of health for all (Global Strategy for health for all by the year 2000, adopted by WHO in 1979), health promotion (Ottawa Charter in 1986), equal access to healthcare for all, quality and safety for the patient, prevention and fight against health inequalities – all principles that are in accordance with the Constitution of 1958, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 as well as the Declaration of Universal Human Rights proclaimed by the UN in 1948.
AME therefore falls within the scope of human rights. For France, as for all UN member states, this is an ardent moral obligation, which simply becomes an obligation. For this reason, the question of maintaining AME simply should not arise and, for now, one should take this medical help for granted “whatever it takes”. It is about respecting the international law that France has voluntarily signed up to and respecting our blockade of constitutionality.
Specious debate
Besides, what are we talking about? Certainly not an unbearable burden: the healthcare needs financed by the AME represent little compared to the overall amount of national healthcare spending: 970 million compared to the 314 billion of current international healthcare spending, or 0.3% of healthcare spending! And couldn’t we collectively take responsibility for it? These are certainly not small savings but, in this case, isn’t it shameful to question the aid that is being asked of us?
The beneficiaries of the AME are 400,000 per year for 68 million French people, or 0.6% of our number. These figures indicate that an AME beneficiary costs society half as much for his health as the average Frenchman would spend. We are therefore far from what suggests a specious debate, which points to public revenge hordes of fake foreign patients who would come to us to gorge themselves on medical treatments.
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