Why the laboratories are calling for a “renewable strike” from November 14

by time news

Following the failure of discussions with Medicare, the 4,200 private laboratories will stop receiving patients for ordinary biology procedures.

The discontent rises on the side of the laboratory technicians and the biologists. Mobilized since October 27, they denounce a “austerity curefrom the government. In question, the Social Security financing bill for 2023 (PLFSS), in which the executive plans to reduce the budget allocated to medical biology, the State partially subsidizing the acts carried out by these professionals. The envelope would thus be reduced by 250 million euros each year for current procedures, until 2026.

This decrease constitutesan unprecedented financial threat“, annoys the president of the Alliance of medical biology (ABM), Alain Le Meur. This budget cut would call into questionthe quality of care, employment in the territories, the innovation capacity of laboratories and their network“, denounces the representative. “In ten years, the volume of medical biology acts has increased by 30% while the envelope has only increased by 3%“, he insists.

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Monday evening, representatives of medical biologists discussed with Thomas Fatôme, the director general of the National Health Insurance Fund (CNAM). But the exchanges fell short. “We hit a wall“says François Blanchecotte, national president of the union of biologists. In order to underline their dissatisfaction, the biologists called on Monday, November 7 to the “renewable strikefrom November 14. Concretely, the 4200 French private laboratories will stop receiving patients for ordinary biology acts, except for emergencies and scheduled appointments.

A movement that continues

From October 27 to November 2, private laboratories had stopped the transmission of Covid test results to the SI-DEP portal. This makes it possible to identify all the results of the French at the national level. This rupture was also noted by the statistical service of the Ministry of Health, the DREES, which specifies that “private sector laboratories accounted for 79% of test reports for the week of October 17 to 23” and “many of them no longer transmitted between October 27 and 30».

Two weeks ago, the Minister of Health, François Braun and the Minister in charge of Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal sent a letter to the presidents of the unions to denounce a suspension “inadmissible». «This situation was all the more inconsistent and reckless in that it took the French hostage and blinded the authorities to the management of an epidemic that continues to kill every day.“Adds the Ministry of Health.

For now, the executive still does not seem to change its mind. The government spokesman, Olivier Véran, declared on November 6 that there would be “no turning back” on the savings included in the Social Security budget and that there was “no reason to revise this position».

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