The National Rally (RN) presidential candidate Marine Le Pen announced Thursday, January 20, during a campaign trip to Fréjus (Var), wanting to devote 20 billion euros to the health system, including two billion over five years for “raise the salaries of nursing staff” to the hospital. She notably proposed to reform the governance of the public hospital, to create 100,000 places in nursing homes in addition “by 2030”, to increase the salaries of nurses by 10% to reach “European average” or to abolish the regional health agencies (ARS).
“The ills from which our health system suffers predate the current health crisis” who revealed “structural flaws”, estimated Mme Le Pen during this trip, accompanied throughout the day by the RN mayor of the city, David Rachline. In particular, she went to a nursing home to meet caregivers and carers, then to the central fund for social activities (CCAS) in Fréjus.
As pointed out the same morning in an interview with Var-Matin, the far-right candidate said on Thursday that she wanted “restore confidence in the public hospital”, by providing the means “to be effective and by reforming its governance”. In order to “reassert the authority of the state” in matters of health, Mr.me The Pen intends, among other things, to abolish the regional health agencies (ARS) and entrust the supervision of hospitals to the regional prefects.
Bonus of 300 euros for caregivers
To cope with the shortage of nursing staff at the public hospital, it also wishes to recruit ” a lot “ medical staff, stating that “30% of positions are not filled”. The contender for the Elysée – for the third consecutive time – thus wishes to set a ceiling of 10% of administrative posts. “Some administrative staff who have the skills will become healthcare staff”, she explained.
In order to raise the salaries of nursing staff at the hospital, Marine Le Pen wishes to devote two billion euros over five years to this subject. The salary of nurses, already increased during the Ségur de la santé, will thus be increased by 10% to reach “European average”.
Assuring that “100,000 beds have been closed in the last twenty years”, without providing her sources, she also indicated that she wanted to establish a “moratorium” on the abolition of beds in the public hospital. promising “an eradication of medical deserts” and estimating that 7.4 million French people today live in a medical desert, the MP for Pas-de-Calais suggests “strong financial incentives”, including compensation “modulated according to the place of installation” and development of telemedicine, without further details on the allocated budget.
Marine Le Pen also announced that she wanted to set up for caregivers ” who take in a recipient or settle in with him”, a bonus of 300 euros per month. “The aim of this measure is to help carers while promoting the home care of the people being helped”, she justified. She also proposed to create 100,000 additional places in Ehpad “by 2030 », as well as to create a service “geriatric emergencies” if elected.
Finally, the RN candidate also wants “fight once morest fraudsters” of the health system which, according to her, are not “almost never sanctioned” and reform State medical aid (AME), which covers medical care provided to foreigners “irregular”, which is established at “one billion euros in the 2022 budget once morest 990 million euros in 2021”.