On June 14, a transpartisan group of deputies led by the socialist Guillaume Garot proposed to condition the installation of doctors in areas already well provided with caregivers to authorization from regional health agencies. Their text – transcribed in the form of amendments within the framework of a majority bill on the health system – was rejected, by 168 votes against, and 127 for, giving rise to lively debates in the Hemicycle.
Nothing surprising. Since the appearance of the shortage of general practitioners, linked in particular to the establishment of the numerus clausus in 1971 to limit the number of trained practitioners, no government has adopted coercive measures to force their installation in medical deserts. Other health professionals are however subject to such regulation, such as pharmacists. So why not doctors?
Our explanations in this three-minute video. And if you want to know more about the subject, we refer you to the decryption below.
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