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Re: France Adopts New Health Reforms From: Bernard Cristalli (bcrist@club-internet.fr) Fri Jun 25 09:34:59 2004 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Richard Chudacoff, MD: "Re: France Adopts New Health Reforms" Previous message: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "GEN: Med-mal "crisis"" In reply to: art fougner, md: "France Adopts New Health Reforms" Next in thread: Richard Chudacoff, MD: "Re: France Adopts New Health Reforms" Reply: Richard Chudacoff, MD: "Re: France Adopts New Health Reforms" But the price of medical goods has not been updated for 9 years (visits), or 14 years (operation prices). So, actually, it's the doctors that will have the more important buden. We are lobbying the Senators and Representants, assuming that striking the doctors is more politically correcte than striking the consumers, I must say the game is not over. -- Bernard Cristalli MD AMACOG AIHP - ACCA Paris France http://www.CliniquedelEssonne.fr http://www.obgyn.net/corresp/cristalli.htm http://www.gyneweb.fr '64 Mk2 3.8 > De : evsono@pipeline.com (art fougner, md) > > 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.3011 5.> 1 > > hmmm, gatekeepers? copays? sound familiar? > > art > > -- > art fougner, md > ich bin ein New Yorker > Next message: Richard Chudacoff, MD: "Re: France Adopts New Health Reforms" Previous message: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "GEN: Med-mal "crisis"" In reply to: art fougner, md: "France Adopts New Health Reforms" Next in thread: Richard Chudacoff, MD: "Re: France Adopts New Health Reforms" Reply: Richard Chudacoff, MD: "Re: France Adopts New Health Reforms"

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