About twenty mainly socialist local elected representatives, including the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, are calling for a “Real debate on the policy to be carried out for the hospital” via a shared initiative referendum (RIP) already launched, in the Sunday Newspaper June 13.
“The health crisis will have shown the extraordinary commitment, the sense of the collective and the unfailing professional conscience of these women and men who keep the hospital alive. It will also have brought to light the difficult working conditions and the limits of our hospital system ”, underline these elected officials including also the mayors of Lille Martine Aubry, Rennes Nathalie Appéré, Clermont-Ferrand Olivier Bianchi and again the president of the Occitanie region Carole Delga.
According to them, “One thing is obvious: the hospital can only fulfill its missions through funding to match the needs”. And “Apart from the salary increases, the responses provided by the government following the Ségur de la santé are limited to technical adjustments without change of perspective”.
Willingness to launch “a real debate on the policy to be carried out for the hospital”
“The shared initiative referendum proposed by the inter-hospital collective should allow our country to finally have a real debate on the policy to be followed for the hospital”, they believe, calling on parliamentarians to sign it.
The inter-hospital collective wants “Guarantee equal access to healthcare”, “Ensure a sufficient number of caregivers”, “Define the quantity of beds according to needs” and even “Review the funding of the public hospital”.
The RIP makes it possible to submit a bill to referendum if it is supported by at least a fifth of the members of Parliament (185 parliamentarians) then 10% of the people registered on the electoral rolls (ie 4.7 million citizens).
Billions for the hospital
The Covid-19 crisis has changed the parameters of the debate on health spending. The savings plans have been replaced by investment plans. But for what objectives?
- “It is not where the expenses are the highest that the results are the best”, by Bruno Palier, political scientist and research director of the CNRS at the Center for European Studies of Sciences Po
- “Some solutions to reverse the decline in healthcare performance”, by Samantha Jérusalmy, partner of the venture capital firm Elaia, and Jean-David Zeitoun, doctor and doctor in clinical epidemiology
- “Hospital workers are all experiencing the degradation of the terms of wage exchange”, by Fanny Vincent, lecturer in political science at the University of Saint-Etienne and researcher at the Triangle laboratory
- “The health crisis leads us to take into account the relationship between consumption and health”, by Carine Milcent, researcher at the CNRS and associate professor of economics at the Paris School of Economics