Health Insurance announced Thursday morning the postponement of the price negotiation session with the unions of private doctors, after the announcement of two of them that they were suspending their participation. “Thomas Fatôme, general director of the CNAM, is forced to postpone” the negotiation session scheduled for Thursday April 5 after the decision of two unions not to attend, Health Insurance indicated in a press release. He “deplores the delay in the conclusion of the conventional negotiations,” she added.
Two unions of liberal doctors, Avenir Spé Le Bloc and the UFML-S, announced during the night from Wednesday to Thursday that they were suspending their participation in price negotiations with Health Insurance, in support of private hospitalization which denounces the weakness of the tariff increase granted to it for 2024.
The two unions called on private doctors to join the call for a strike by private clinics and hospitals starting June 3. “The government’s decision to increase funding for private for-profit clinics and hospitals by 0.3%” – while public hospitals will benefit from an increase of 4.3% – “is unacceptable for liberal medical specialists who work in these structures,” indicated the Avenir Spé Le Bloc union, the first among specialist doctors.
“Each doctor must understand that it is liberal medicine that is under attack, threatened in its very existence, through the orchestrated destabilization of private hospitalization,” indicated the union of general practitioners UFML-S.