French presidential election and hospital system: what coexistence between public and private?
Garden of the Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Paris © Shutterstock - YING Lina
By: Caroline Paré Follow
1 min
Before the French presidential election, the Priorité Santé team chose to devote a series of programs to the major challenges that arise in terms of health on a national scale.
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The French hospital system is characterized by the coexistence of public and private healthcare establishments.
The public sector represents 65% of the beds and the private sector 35%.
While the public hospital is going through a persistent crisis, accentuated by the shock of the pandemic, how can we envisage the future of this system which is based on two different economic logics?
Report by
Igor Strauss
in Seine-Saint-Denis
Dr Sophie Crozier,
neurologist at
the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital (AP-HP) in Paris
Fréderic Bizard
, professor of economics, specialist in social protection and health issues.
Author of
Solidarity autonomy in health: the only possible reform
at Michalon editions
Dr Jérome Marty,
president of
the French Union for Free Medicine – (UFML-S) union
.
Director of the
Saint-Roch clinic
in Fronton, in the Haute Garonne.
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