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France Adopts New Health ReformsFrom: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)Fri Jun 25 07:58:44 2004
On June 16, the French Cabinet approved controversial health-care reforms in a bid to reduce its annual deficit of E13 billion, which is threatening to bankrupt the system. "The reforms guarantee the future of our health-care system and equal treatment for all French people", president Jacques Chirac told ministers. The reforms were voted in despite receiving strong criticism from trade unions, which claim the plan puts most of the health burden on patients and hits the weakest hardest. Ministers expect the changes will mean savings of up to E16 billion a year by 2007. The plans include: computerising patient records, encouraging patients to visit their family physician before going to specialists, promoting the use of cheaper generic drugs, and making patients pay a small charge of E1 charge for each visit to a doctor. http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol363/iss9427/full/llan.363.9427.news.30115.1 hmmm, gatekeepers? copays? sound familiar? art
-- art fougner, md ich bin ein New Yorker
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