Medicine, surgery and obstetrics

One hundred clinical managers demonstrated outside the entrance to the health ministry in Paris, Tuesday, March 4, braving the wind and rain for two hours. At the invitation of the Federation of Private Hospitals , the industry-The MCO (medicine, surgery and obstetrics), but also of the National Union of private psychiatric hospitals (UNCPSY), all these bosses' private institution argued their refusal to become the adjustment variable deficit of the health insurance. "With 0.5% increase, medicine, surgery and obstetrics is it impossible to balance its budget," says Marc Boucher, CEO of a group of six facilities (250 beds) in Aquitaine. Around his neck, a lifeline yellow indicates "clinic ready to plunge." "Calculated THAN JUST" Marie-Paule Gaillard, director of clinical Seine-et-Marne, said she, "for the third consecutive year, the increase is less than allowed inflation: in 2007, it was found to 1.26% when the charges increased by 5%. " The director of a 200-bed clinic in Paris says she will lose 0.8% on all fares once it has integrated the 0.5% increase in authorized by the Ministry of Health: "I Lost 200000 euros in 2007. " Until now, clinics brought the patient to pay a portion of the bill. "It is paying special rooms, on the margins on subscriptions to Canal +, or on bottles of mineral water, but it's the grocery store," regrets a patron clinic. The game can continue even less that "mutual unwilling to reimburse the special rooms," says another. When asked whether this budget reduction is not intended to encourage clinics to increase productivity, they récrient: "Everything is calculated at the fair." And employees who have not been increased "over the past three years are beginning to let us know! We are all on the verge of a social conflict". Jacques Gayral, president of the UNCPSY, says that in mental health, "productivity gains, it makes no sense." "Psychiatry is the human work: when you double the number of patients, we need to double the staff, he adds. There are no economies of scale." For these professionals is the ability to invest is threatened. This means the ability to offer patients a medicine quality. Olivier Toma, president of the MCO-was received Tuesday at the Elysée. He hoped that the president will be more attentive to their demands that the Ministry of Health.