Led by the association “Our hospital is you”, a shared initiative referendum project intends to reform the public hospital. A bill for “universal access to a quality public hospital service” was filed yesterday with the Constitutional Council in order to open a shared initiative referendum (RIP) on this text.
Several hundred deputies and senators, from various political groups, gave their support to this collective referendum project. Never has a RIP received such support. More material and human resources and funding from the hospital are requested. Among the parliamentarians, Gisèle Biémouret, member of the Gers, spoke at the press conference following the submission of the project: “All the socialist and related deputies naturally support this referendum bill. For two reasons: the first, it is the democratic tool used: the “Referendum of shared initiative.” With our fellow Socialist senators, we were the first to use this constitutional tool at the end of 2018, 10 years after its creation , with the objective of re-establishing the wealth tax. The second reason, and this is the most important, is the substance of the proposals made by this proposed referendum law. October 22, 2019, in the heart of a movement social history in our hospitals and nursing homes, we presented with our fellow Socialist senators an emergency plan for the hospital and for autonomy.
We proposed a massive investment in the public hospital with an investment plan of 1.5 billion euros per year. We proposed to increase the hospital’s budget from 2020 with an additional 830 million euros, to increase the remuneration of staff in hospitals and nursing homes, to stop the elimination of posts …
If the health crisis has allowed some progress with the Ségur de la Santé, these advances are still insufficient, as we said yesterday to the Minister of Health during the questioning session to the government. With this shared initiative referendum, we will finally be able to truly guarantee universal access to a quality public hospital service.
Finally, I will conclude on a point of vigilance. The procedures for collecting signatures were not satisfactory during the RIP at Aéroports de Paris. The Ministry of the Interior has one month, the time for the Constitutional Council to verify the constitutionality of the proposed referendum law, to get down to work and provide French women and men with a tool commensurate with this subject. national importance which is the defense of our public hospital! “
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