The National Assembly on Wednesday gave its final green light to the health bill that includes the end of the "numerus clausus" for medical students, after a last charge of the left focused on emergency strike.
The text carried by Agnès Buzyn, approved by 138 votes against 18, and 17 abstentions, will still have to be submitted to a final vote in the Senate on July 16 for final adoption by Parliament. "Our health system urgently needs this reform," the minister told the deputies, saying her "great satisfaction" that the two chambers had reached an agreement in June, which will allow the promulgation of the law in July.
500 to 600 labeled "local hospitals"
Translating part of the measures of the plan "My Health 2022" presented in September by Emmanuel Macron, the text provides, in addition to the reform of health studies with the abolition of the "numerus clausus" from 2020, the labeling of 500 to 600 "hospitals of proximity ", regularization of foreign doctors, expanded access to health data or the creation of a digital health area.
Defending a motion to reject, the insubordinate member Caroline Fiat has gorged one by one for more than five minutes the "181 emergency services on strike" in the country: "emergency Caen on strike, emergencies of Angers on strike", of Tours, Bayonne, Mantes-la-Jolie, Amboise, Saumur, Lourdes, Grenoble ... "For several weeks, a white tide has risen in all of France", said this professional nurse, denouncing the "breakage of the public hospital service "and considering that the bill" will aggravate the situation ". "The demagogy is not on strike," retorted the rapporteur Thomas Mesnier (LREM), saying that the text will allow to adapt the health system and that proposals "will be made very soon" on emergencies.
The LR group voted for
For communist deputies, Alain Bruneel pointed "the gulf" between the text and the reality of the field, while there are "suicides" and "burn-out". The Socialists have also judged the emergency crisis "symptomatic" health system needs that "are not found" in the text, described as "minor surgery almost aesthetic" by Gisèle Biémouret.
While he has ruled that the bill "can not by itself respond to the crisis," Jean-Pierre Door (LR) has proposed a favorable vote of his group because of advances in the Senate in favor of territories. Paul Christophe (UDI and independents) also hailed "significant progress" despite some flats, while the Libertés et Territoires group shared.