Health: the proposals of the presidential candidates

Solène Delinger with AFP 12:30 p.m., March 24, 2022

The twelve candidates for the presidential election have unveiled their program.

After two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, health is one of the subjects at the heart of their concerns and those of the French.

Fight against medical deserts, emergency plan for health, reimbursement of all care, reform of the conditions of access to social benefits... Each candidate presented his ideas for improving the current health system.

On the occasion of the release of our presidential playlists (the one on health can be found by clicking here or at the bottom of this article), Europe 1 returns to the candidate proposals.

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan wants to review the organization of the health system by replacing the regional health agencies (ARS) with departmental directorates under the authority of the prefect, closer to the field.

At the same time, the member for Essonne wants to reorganize the Ministry of Health by abolishing the public establishment of an administrative nature Public Health France, in favor of an integrated organization of the ministry.

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan wants the eradication of medical deserts.

To achieve this objective, it will increase the number of places in medical studies in order to reach 12,000 practitioners per year and create a scholarship for medical students, in exchange for which they will undertake to settle in an area understaffed during their first five years of operation.

He also wants to allow doctors establishing themselves in medical deserts to receive more income by supplementing existing systems with a reduction in their social security contributions.

Anne Hidalgo

Anne Hidalgo wants to put in place a Marshall plan to save the public hospital, change the method of financing the hospital and restore equal access to care in France.

As part of her program for 2022, the candidate of the Socialist Party also aims to carry out a public health policy centered on prevention and quality of life.

She also indicated that she would make mental health one of the great causes of her five-year term.

Yannick Jadot

Yannick Jadot wants to rebuild a public health service, guaranteeing the success of the ecological transition, with in particular the legalization of cannabis and the launch of an emergency plan for the hospital. 

The environmentalist candidate wants to get out of centralized management and distribute the means according to the needs of the populations.

To do this, it wants a health care and prevention offer accessible to all to be piloted and coordinated by health communities at the territorial level (50,000 to 150,000 inhabitants).

These will bring together all the health players (hospitals, clinics, city doctors, medico-social professionals, etc.).

It also wants to strengthen the place of users and staff in the governance of the hospital.

Yannick Jadot wants to constitutionalize the right to abortion and facilitate its practice by allowing midwives to perform surgical abortions, and by extending its deadline to 14 weeks.

Finally, the candidate of Europe Écologie-Les Verts wishes to automatically recognize the filiation of children born of GPA abroad for both parents.

Marine Le Pen 

Marine Le Pen has based her health program on the national priority.

The candidate of the Rassemblement national wishes to focus the social protection system on people of French nationality and foreigners in a regular situation who have been working in France for several years.

She wants to restrict foreigners' access to certain state benefits and aid in order to save money, including RSA (active solidarity income), family allowances and AME (state medical aid) .

Care professions are considered fundamental by Marine Le Pen.

It is for this reason that the RN candidate promises a salary increase of "10% more than what the Ségur provides" for nurses.

Like almost all the other contenders for the Elysée Palace, Marine Le Pen wants to fight against medical deserts.

How? 'Or' What ?

By reviewing "the entire development" of French territories.

She also advocates "demetropolisation", consisting of a "rebalancing between the countryside and the big cities in order to solve the problems of the health divide, which is increasingly important". 

The candidate also wants to improve the financing of hospitals by restoring the overall operating grant, a system that prevailed before 2007. She also promises to entrust the management of hospitals to regional prefects. 

Emmanuel Macron 

If he is re-elected, Emmanuel Macron wants to help city doctors take on more patients by setting up a referral system for simple acts.

He thus proposes to appoint “a referent pharmacist or nurse in a health territory for a prescription renewal or very simple things to do”.

He also wants to develop teleconsultations and support young practitioners to settle.

"10% of the population has no attending physician", observes Emmanuel Macron.

"We have real areas of medical deserts which create territorial injustice. And we have 5% of the population over 65 who can no longer find treating doctors."

Emmanuel Macron wants to recruit 50,000 nurses and caregivers in nursing homes. 

The outgoing president also promises a "citizen convention" to settle the recurring issue of end of life.

"On this subject, I hope that we can move forward in a peaceful way, which is why I think it is a good subject for a citizens' convention", he argued during the presentation of his program in Aubervilliers. .

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Jean-Luc Melenchon

One of the main axes of Jean-Luc Mélenchon's health program is based on the idea of ​​"100% Secu".

Its principle?

Reimburse 100% of prescribed health care and integrate mutual insurance into Social Security in order to allow everyone access to health.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon intends to rebuild the public hospital service.

For this, it aims to strengthen the financial contribution of the State to the budget of local authorities through global operating grants (DGF) and a return to the cuts in beds and staff.

The candidate of La France insoumise recommends activating all the levers to combat medical deserts.

Mélenchon's program for the presidency in 2022 is based in particular on the recruitment of public doctors, the increase in the means of the faculties of medicine to make the abolition of the numerus clausus effective, the creation of networks of public multidisciplinary health centers in connection with the public hospitals and the creation of a public drug centre.

There is a dual vocation: to eliminate the influence of the private sector on prices and access to medicine and to massively produce vaccines and treatments that have passed into the public domain.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon proposes to reopen emergency services, maternity wards and public Ehpad less than 30 minutes from each French person.

Finally, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is determined to

put in place a major plan for mental health which will notably strengthen the networks of medico-psychological centers (CMP). 

Valerie Pécresse

Valérie Pécresse wants to put in place an "emergency plan for health", with the objective, among other things, of increasing the number of staff and "debureaucratizing" the hospital in order to give it a "new breath".

To achieve this, the Republican candidate promises to pass a five-year health programming law to give visibility to all players, especially those in research, industry and innovation.

In the same perspective, Valérie Pécresse wishes to fight against medical deserts.

The former MP for Yvelines wishes in particular to strengthen the decision-making power of local authorities, in particular by entrusting regional presidents with the presidency of regional health agencies.

It also wishes to initiate a real prevention revolution to make it a central policy.

Fabien Roussel

Fabien Roussel wants to build a "Social Security of the 21st century" and review the financing of social protection.

To this end, it promotes comprehensive risk management, entirely financed by contributions.

It also wishes to democratize the social protection system and increase its scope of action.

Fabien Roussel's program for 2022 sets out the objective of overhauling the public hospital and initiating a new national health strategy.

To do this, the former journalist promises massive recruitment within the public service, as well as significant increases in salaries and social benefits.

Fabien Roussel wants to fight against medical deserts.

For this, doctors would have the right to settle in dense areas only after the retirement of a doctor.

Health centers would also be strongly developed.

The various quotas for medical and paramedical training, for their part, would be abolished and 12,000 places in the medical sector would be opened (compared to 8,000 today).

To achieve this, the candidate wishes to strengthen the budget of the training courses concerned and offer more pre-recruitment to students during their training. 

Eric Zemmour

Éric Zemmour wants to review the conditions of access to social benefits.

The former polemicist wishes to reserve them for people of French nationality and originating from the European Union.

He estimates that this measure would save 20 billion euros.

Éric Zemmour wants to restore the duty of doctors on call and, in order to combat medical deserts, have 1,000 doctors hired by the State, set up a reinvestment plan for the benefit of the hospital system and postpone the retirement age. retirement gradually, for example at age 64.

Éric Zemmour has indicated that he "would do everything" so that France has less and less need for foreign doctors.

Éric Zemmour's program for the 2022 presidential election mentions only one proposal relating to public health: abolishing state medical aid (AME). 

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