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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