The Mutualité française scrutinizes the program of presidential candidates with “Place de la Santé”

Health is one of the primary concerns of the French. Thanks to its Internet platform “Place de la santé”, the mutuals federated within the French Mutuality therefore offer a decryption of the programs of each of the 12 candidates entered for the 1st round of the elections, on Sunday April 10.

“Our desire, warns Marc Majorel, president of the mutualist union, is to shed light on the public debate with regard to the health issues of tomorrow such as dependency, prevention, access to care, etc. We have a good system of health in France, but it is attacked from all sides. It is up to everyone to form an opinion on what the candidates are proposing with regard to their own concerns”.

In the midst of this vast subject, the site “Place of health” details by file the announcements and commitments for each candidate at the Elysée, “a kind of compilation” specify the representatives of the French Mutuality, while regretting: “There are announcements and proposals from candidates, but few say how they intend to finance them. However, we like realistic solutions, which make it possible to financially balance our health system”.

Inform and restore the truth

This site also has a comparative table between the candidates on the main areas of health. “There is also an info-intox, or detox section”, launches Marc Majorel, alongside Marie-Christine Hallot, Macif administrator for Mutuality; before recalling: “At the Mutualité française, we are committed to access to care for all, to a prevention system which, alas, remains too weak to date since only 1.9% of the budget is devoted to it; or even to State medical aid for people in an irregular situation, which corresponds to only 0.4% of the budget. But we are pragmatic, and you have to be able to tell the French people that with an average out-of-pocket cost of 20%, our country is among the best ranked in Europe in terms of medical care, that if nursing homes represent an average annual expense of €12,300/year, their cost price is double”, he defends, positioning with humor: “La Mutualité French a bit like the health policeman to restore the truth”.

Solutions, with the professions of tomorrow

Thus, in the Lot, there is no question of talking about medical deserts. “Admittedly, there are difficulties in accessing care in our territory, but that does not make us a medical desert. For example, 13 French departments no longer have a gynecologist, which is not the case with us”.

And then, Marc Majorel remains hopeful: “There are solutions in the grouped exercise, but also by moving towards the professions of tomorrow: medical assistant, dental hygienist… to support our practitioners more effectively”.

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