Solene Delinger
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09:08, May 26, 2022
Michaël Peyromaure was the guest of Europe Matin this Thursday. At the microphone of Sonia Mabrouk, the head of the urology department at Cochin hospital in Paris alerted to the state of the French health system, “in the precipice”. According to him, this situation is partly explained by the excessive generosity of this system, while “two thirds of emergency visits are never paid for by patients”.
Michaël Peyromaure is sounding the alarm. At the microphone of Sonia Mabrouk this Thursday morning on Europe 1, the head of the urology department at the Cochin hospital in Paris firmly denounced the excessive generosity of the French health system, which today finds itself “in the precipice” . “The French health system is broken,” he laments.
“The French health system has deteriorated a lot”
“The hospital was on the edge of the precipice and there we are in the precipice. We cancel, postpone operations and we prioritize. The French health system has deteriorated a lot”. Michaël Peyromaure does not think that this situation is explained by a lack of means because France “spends a lot on health as a whole”. “It’s 11.3% of GDP. We are above the average for OECD countries”, underlines the professor, for whom these means are badly allocated. “They are assigned to the wrong place.”
“In France, we have an administration, a technostructure that is extremely cumbersome and very expensive. We have around twenty national health agencies, which also greatly complicates the decision-making processes. We have 18 regional health agencies, we have territorial hospital groups, we have professional, territorial, health communities”, he lists on Europe 1. “We have a very heavy millefeuille where a lot of money is going. And finally there is no has more money where it is needed, i.e. for the beds of the sick and in the offices of the doctors”.
“Social Security is a bottomless pit”
Michaël Peyromaure thus considers that our system is “too generous”. “We have a medicine that is almost free, with a remaining charge that is very low, which is less than 7%. In the public hospital, two thirds of emergency visits that are billed are sent then to the patients a few weeks later. And well two thirds of the visits to the emergency room are never paid for by the patients”, he denounces.
“I think people know it, just don’t say it. It’s a taboo. Social security is a bottomless pit. There are millions of people who are treated for free and there are a lot of benefits medical services which should be paid a little, in particular light care. However, this is not the case. All of this has a very high cost”.