Question 2587 — overseas

Summary

Mr. Perceval Gaillard alerts the Minister of Health and Access to Care about the financialization of health and particularly radiology in Reunion. In fact, investment funds have taken over 90% of radiology practices which have access rights to heavy equipment: MRI and scanner. For comparison, in France, 20% of firms have sold themselves to private equity companies. Faced with these structures financialized, the National Council of the Order of Physicians fears “a selection of patients treated based on profitability”. In a press release from June 2022, the National Academy of Medicine highlighted the risk posed to the radiology sector by arrangements and contracts that strip professionals of control of governance and management of companies. She indicates that “these contracts, on multiple levels in substance and form, induce professional deregulation with proven risks of loss of decision-making autonomy and orientation of activity towards profitable, simple and modeled examinations at the expense of urgency. In Reunion, patients report abnormally long delays for certain procedures, such as mammography. For illustration, a patient has been waiting for 7 months for an appointment for a mammogram. There financialization of health, in this case radiology, causes a serious failure in access to care and a fortiori, public health. This is why he alerts her to this phenomenon and wants to know what she plans to do to counter it.

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