Get used to it. KY Jelly helps immensely when dealing with government and
medical management types. The only place they EVER take money from is the
doctors...not the drug companies, not the hospitals and definitely not the
insurers.
I never liked seeing McDonald's and Pizza Hut in France, but this, I fear,
is the worst export we could make to your country.
--
Richard Chudacoff, MD
Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Benjamin Franklin
Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an
entrance.
[Prayer To A Pregnant Woman]
-Desiderius Erasmus
-----Original Message-----
From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of Bernard
Cristalli
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 9:36 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
Subject: 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
>
