The health insurance council did not examine, on Thursday, September 11, the draft decrees aimed at restricting access too state medical aid (AME) for irregular foreigners. This means the decrees will not be quickly implemented, according to the France-Presse (AFP) agency.
The CFDT, CGT, and UNSA unions welcomed the removal of the draft decrees – signed in early September while François Bayrou was Prime Minister – from the National Health Insurance Fund’s agenda, as they had requested.
The unions denounced the “absence of legitimacy” of the resigning government to implement “new political orientations.” The decrees would have reduced the scope of care and delayed access to services for those in irregular situations, with possibly serious consequences for both those affected and public health, they stated. They described the measures as “political maneuvers whose only objective is, once again, to stigmatize foreign people and make scapegoats.”