Sarkozy is very serious about what is happening – Liberation

Christian Lehmann is a doctor and author. As for “Liberation,” it chronicles a society long affected by the coronavirus. And today we look back at the reforms of successive governments which, since 2007, have undermined care for ALD.

“Social security is more costly than a gain in international competitiveness,” In explained economist Eric Le Boucher Le Figaro In 2006, when Nicolas Sarkozy began his long march to the presidential election with his favorite slogan “work more to earn more”, and among the main steps of his neoliberal project, in the name of empowerment, the establishment of deductibles on healthcare… cancer patients, work accidents, Diabetic patients and people with kidney failure. “Is there insurance without excess?” he asked in front of a jeering audience. Eighteen years later, the work of undermining has progressed well. Healthcare deductibles were adopted in 2007, despite strong mobilization and a healthcare strike launched by Bruno-Pascal Chevalier, a now-deceased AIDS activist. With the end of severe hypertension (hypertension), the scope of long-term conditions (ALD) benefiting from 100% coverage has been redefined, which affected millions of people, because hypertension was not a disease, but a disease. risk factor. Financial relevance doesn’t matter, because treating chronic illnesses early to prevent them from getting worse obviously lowers the ultimate cost to the community. Whatever the gap in expectations