At the end of November, during the examination of the Social Security financing bill, senators said no to limiting a duration of 30 days of the first sick leave. The measure had, however, been adopted in the National Assembly a few days earlier. A “arbitrary and medically unfounded limitation would require several hundred thousand hours of consultation”according to the senators. At the same time, checks on sick leave will be tightened from this month of December. Health Insurance will have the possibility oforganize medical checks by videoconference with insured persons on sick leave.
If the measure is in the testing phase, it should make it possible to better control the outages which are on the rise. Questioned in “Les Grandes Gueules” on RMC Story, journalist Olivier Truchot believes he has found another solution: “Why are work stoppages exploding?”he asks first. Before continuing: “You put the consultation at 80 or 100 euros at the general practitioner, well you will have a lot fewer people, that will calm everyone down, we will no longer have the fraudsters”he believes.
Videoconferencing, a bad solution?
Building on his momentum, Olivier Truchot returned to the new control measures by videoconference. For him, these new measures have certain limits : “The insured receives an email and an SMS two days before the appointment, if he is a fraudster he will organize himself so as not to be caught, set a false decor for”he highlights, before recalling that in person, “at least (…) you have to be at home for the check”.
However, the solutions put forward by Olivier Truchot were far from convincing on the “Grandes Gueules” set. Educator Abel Boyi particularly deplored “cowboy communication” where we “suggests that all those who take sick leave are fraudsters”. Same story with trade unionist and railway worker Bruno Poncet, for whom “there are a lot of problems related to mental health and we don’t want to deal with this subject by believing that everyone is cheating”.
According to RMC, around 300 work stoppage control teleconsultations were carried out. According to the first feedback, 38% of them resulted in sick leave, but necessarily for cases of fraud.
