PRESENTATION OF KEY FEATURES OF THE HEALTH BILL SPEECH BY MARISOL TOURAINE - MINISTER FOR SOCIAL AFFAIRS AND HEALTH

Abstract

On September 23, I presented the national health strategy, the challenge of which is to overhaul our health care system.
health. This overhaul is necessary to meet the
great challenges it faces.
That of aging, which requires a reorientation of
our policy.
That of chronic diseases, then, which affect
today nearly one in four French people.
Finally, the mobilization of innovation in the service of the quality and efficiency of care.
Faced with these upheavals, only one question arises:
how to respond to these challenges so that, in the years that
come, the French, all the French, still have access
to an excellent health system?
This law, of which I am going to present the main orientations, and not the details of the measures, will transform the daily lives of millions of French people.
It will change the relationship of the French to their health. It their
will provide the means to guard and protect themselves. he
will give them, when illness occurs, the weapons to
coping: simplified reimbursement of care, deadlines
shorter consultations, smoother care
and understandable by all.