All the unions of liberal doctors maintain their call for a strike starting on January 5, denouncing the draft budget of the Social Security and a government policy "trampling" on their profession.
The six unions are also calling for a demonstration in Paris on Saturday, January 10.
"Never before has a government accumulated so many attacks" against liberal medicine "in such a short time," say the six representative doctors' unions of general practitioners and specialists in private practice, and six organizations of interns and young doctors.
The unions announced their unified strike on November 26th. They decided to maintain the movement after examining the text of the 2026 Social Security budget bill, as adopted by the National Assembly on Tuesday.
Several articles they denounced have been removed or modified, but the text still contains provisions that they fiercely reject.
The unions point out that "massive fines for doctors who do not use the DMP" (the shared medical record accessible electronically) are still included.
They also add that there remains a possibility of an "authoritarian reduction" in health insurance rates for technical procedures.
The organizations also denounce the anti-fraud bill currently being debated in parliament. This bill stipulates that the national health insurance system will be able to "impose" "target-based" procedures on doctors, a process that requires doctors prescribing more sick leave than their peers to reduce their prescriptions.
The organizations also reiterate their opposition to the Garot and Mouillé bills, currently under consideration in Parliament, which both aim to restrict the freedom of doctors to establish themselves in order to better combat medical deserts.
Finally, they believe that "with the mission on decentralization, the government is preparing total state regulation of health, a massive recentralization of health management, and the disappearance of health democracy."
On the union side, the press release is signed by Avenir Spé/Le Bloc, CSMF, FMF, MG France, SML and UFML.
It is also signed by Isnar-IMG and Isni (interns), and by ReAGJIR, Jeunes Médecins, Médecins pour Demain (young doctors) and Comeli (local committees of liberal doctors).
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