“ We, healthcare workers of every specialty and from every background, wish to oppose with firmness and unity the plan to abolish State Health Assistance (AME) in favor of a degraded system. »
In an article published Thursday 2 November in The worlda collective of 3,000 health workers has taken a stand against the probable abolition of State Health Assistance (AME), which could be discussed in the framework of the “immigration” bill that will be debated in the Senate on Monday 6 November.
“Their health is ours too”
Among the signatories of the text we find Françoise Barré-Sinoussivirologist and Nobel Prize winner for medicine in 2008, or even Jean-François Delfraissypresident of the National Ethics Advisory Committee.
The AME system allows people in an irregular situation, present in France for at least three months, to benefit from a total coverage of healthcare costs. But the immigration bill plans to replace it with emergency medical aid, which is much more restrictive.
According to the signatories of the forum, this new system would push caregivers to select patients” between those who can be cured and those who are abandoned to their fate. “. What they refuse: “ Their health is ours too. Political restrictions will only put a strain on bodies, contribute to the deterioration of public health, complicate the job of health workers, and weaken an already bloodless health system.. »
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A device contrary to the medical code of ethics
So, these 3000 healthcare workers remind us that AME is “ a tool to fight exclusions accessible only to people whose resources are less than 810 euros per month and who demonstrate stable residence in France “.
But they also point out that the implementation of this new system would be contrary to the ethics of any doctor and to respect for human rights:
Limiting access to care to a vulnerable population on the basis of a criterion of regularity of residence is contrary to most of the human rights texts in force in France, which establish that every individual must have access to care whatever their origin and his status.
Collective of 3000 caregivers.
Before underlining: “ Out of humanity and in accordance with the code of medical ethics to which we refer and with the Hippocratic Oath that we took at the end of our studies. It is the honor of our profession. »
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