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No. The COMEG did not misinterpret the circular safety allowing physicians to file complaints against their patients CMU beneficiaries

COMEG Communiqué - August 21, 2008

Circular safety on the denial of care to beneficiaries of supplementary CMU




On 14 August, the health minister, Roselyne Bachelot, was interviewed on RMC radio live from Beijing about the circular Social Security allowing doctors to complain against patients receiving supplementary CMU. The Collective of GP for Access to Care (COMEG) was brought on 1 August to re-enter the High Authority on the discriminatory power of this circular.


The interview with the Minister can be heard here: http://tinyurl.com/56v345 (from the 10th minute 19, duration: 2 mn)
The News News August 1, the letter entry HALDE and circular safety are available at: http://www.leblogducomegas.blogspot.com .

The Minister claims the initiative of this circular. It seems to fit rather through recommendations to the Social Security " Chadelat Report" published November 30, 2006 following the first seizure of the HALDE COMEG and ISSC. The minister believes that the circular has been misinterpreted. On the contrary.

is the first time a circular allows doctors to complain (the term is specified in the circular as well) with a social security agency, against some of its policyholders, selected in accordance with economic and social .


For public health policy based on facts and not on prejudice

The COMEG reaffirms the need to establish a public health policy and access to healthcare for the vulnerable members of our society on solid facts and evidence established, instead of unfounded judgments and opinions, and a priori ideological. The

COMEG recalls that the fact that the recipients of CMU behave "worse" than the rest of the population is strictly based on any evidence. The "good education" is no more the preserve of those who pay the "bad" than those who do not pay for economic and social. Government Initiatives of the republic and those of Social Security, a pillar of national solidarity, can not rely on such ideological biases and unhealthy. The

COMEG recalls that, contrary to what is written in the circular and the claims of some doctors, assert that free health care "disempowering" patients is a cons-truth or a lie. The facts and evidence are in fact long been demonstrating the falsity of that assertion. These facts and evidence should no longer be ignored or denied. The

COMEG recalls that as we move down the social scale, more people are sick and die early. Rather than erect barriers based on prejudice against patients sicker than the rest of the population, the demand COMEG a public health policy actually reduces the many social inequalities in health, higher in France than in the rest of Europe, causing morbidity and mortality highest at the bottom of the social ladder.


A circular discriminatory: the worst response to a real problem

The issue of access to healthcare for the disadvantaged is major public health problem. The Department of Health and Social Security have reason to be seized, but it is absurd to think to solve this serious problem by stigmatizing those who are victims. The COMEG calls the establishment, among other things through vocational training financed by conventional social security, a training of doctors to the problem of social inequalities in health, lives the realities of risk populations and specific health and relational their support. The

COMEG requires each user of the health system in France is treated the same way regardless of how they access care. COMEG reaffirms the discriminatory dimension of this circular, calling for arbitration of HALDE, and calls for its withdrawal.

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