Social Security budget: the surtax on excess fees, a measure rejected by specialist doctors

This is not the most divisive healthcare cost-cutting measure among politicians, but it has been provoking a rise in protests among private practice doctors for several weeks. The "surcharge" on fees exceeding the standard rates charged by a growing number of practitioners, included in Article 26 of the draft Social Security Financing Bill (PLFSS), was not rejected by members of parliament when the text went through the social affairs committee at the end of October, unlike several other sensitive measures (tax on supplementary health insurance, medical deductibles, etc.).

Even before its public debate – MPs are working on the text until Wednesday, November 12, the date set for the formal vote in the National Assembly – the measure has stirred up the private medical community, particularly surgeons, anesthesiologists, urologists, and obstetrician-gynecologists, who are united under the banner of the Le Bloc union. These are specialists who practice in sector 2, this area of ​​"fee freedom" which allows practitioners to set their fees above the agreed-upon, or "enforceable," rate, and whose excess charges would therefore be subject to additional taxation in the future.

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