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Six days before the second round, Midi Libre delves into the issue of health in the programs of Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.
With the health crisis that exploded in 2020, the health component of presidential candidates is one of the hot issues as the second round approaches. Non-exhaustive return to the main ideas defended by Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.
What does Emmanuel Macron propose?
- “Make the hospital more human” – This is how the presidential candidate names one of his health reform plans. He wants to renovate the public hospital by reducing the administrative burden for “caregivers”. This reduction in costs will have to be accompanied by an “increase in responsibilities” for the paramedical sector (pharmacists, midwives, etc.) and a greater place given to doctors in the governance of the hospital.
- Focus on prevention – Emmanuel Macron plans to improve preventive health actions with numerous projects:
- Quickly detect development gaps in children and affiliating them with an attending physician;
- Make a full health checkup free at 25, 45 and 60;
- Allow personalized support for patients who suffer from a chronic illness;
- Detection and prevention plans regarding mental health, infertility and sickle cell disease are also mentioned in his program.
- Fight against medical deserts – The candidate LREM intends to accentuate the development of teleconsultation and allow “punctual permanence in the least endowed territories”.
- Renovating the sector of aid for the elderly – The outgoing President, who plans to increase the number of nursing staff in the public hospital, also hopes to recruit “50,000 additional nurses and nursing assistants in nursing homes by 2027”. Added to this is the introduction of “two hours of conviviality per week” with the elderly.
What are Marine Le Pen’s proposals?
- Replace State Medical Aid (AME) – This is perhaps one, if not the flagship measure of its health program. The RN candidate plans to reform the AME, which she considers to be one of the “causes of illegal immigration” and “acts as a breath of fresh air”. She therefore wishes to transform the AME into a device which would no longer take into account free access to all care but only “urgent care” for adults “as in all countries of the European Union”.
- Eliminate the Regional Health Agencies (ARS) – The RN candidate explains that it is “urgent to loosen the bureaucratic vice and lift the administrative shackles”. The hospitals will thus again be entrusted to the regional prefects “through the Regional Directorates of Health and Social Affairs”.
- Increase the number of caregivers in the hospital – Like Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen intends to recruit medical staff at the hospital. “10,000 additional places” intend to be open. She also plans to raise nurses’ salaries by 10%.
- The fight against medical deserts – This is also one of Marine Le Pen’s concerns. In his program, this translates into “strong financial incentives”. It intends to modulate the salary of practitioners according to the “place of installation”. That is to say that some may be awarded a higher salary depending on the areas where they work.
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