This Social Security financing bill (PLFSS) for 2023 "is betting on health and solidarity" and "I am proud of it", said the minister.
"The ball is in your court, the debate is yours", he launched to the parliamentarians, while the discussions could be interrupted in the next few hours by a government appeal to article 49.3 of the Constitution to make pass the text without a vote, as on the state budget.
"Let's make majorities of ideas exist in the service of the general interest and the health of the French people", further pleaded Mr. Braun.
The PLFSS anticipates a sharp drop in the deficit to 6.8 billion in 2023 (17.8 billion this year), based on a spectacular drop in the Covid bill.
"No savings are made on the hospital," he assured, which the left disputes.
The draft budget plans to improve prevention, with appointments at the key ages of life, to fight against the "abuse" of work stoppages by regulating teleconsultation and to reform the training of general practitioners by adding a fourth year with "priority" internships in medical deserts.
On this last point, it is not a question "in no case of sending our interns to the front" but that they become "autonomous", underlined the minister, confronted with a beginning of revolt of the interns.
The Minister of Solidarity Jean-Christophe Combe then boasted "a fair and responsible budget", highlighting the additional 1.5 billion euros for the autonomy branch and the 1.6 billion for the family branch.
“I challenge those who denounce a supposed lack of ambition to find figures at this height in recent budgets,” he declared to the attention of both the right and the left.
MEPs have tabled more than 3,000 amendments which, on paper, must be examined until October 26.
A motion of preliminary rejection of the Socialists must be debated in the morning.
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