Hirsch questions free healthcare for unvaccinated Covid-19 – RT in French

 

On France 5, the boss of the AP-HP wonders about the responsibility of citizens vis-à-vis vaccination, asking a controversial question about the unvaccinated: « Are we giving up [à la vaccination] without bearing any consequences?

On the evening of January 26 on the set of It’s up to you (France 5), the director general of the AP-HP, Martin Hirsch, hinted at the responsibility of the unvaccinated and the possible consequences they must assume, in short the non-free treatment: « In general, […] when a free prevention tool is available, can be used and is recognized by the scientific community as something [d’]useful, give it up… Do you give it up without bearing any consequences? Or do we effectively combine the fact that we reach out to heal but we say that there is no reason why there should not be consequences – when there will be consequences on other patients who will be difficult to treat and who, themselves, can do nothing about it? 

A journalist then asks him the question of whether tomorrow, logic would not push, for example, to use the same process for smokers wishing to seek treatment for lung cancer. “You are a thousand times right and that is why the debate is delicate,” he retorts.

“I find that there is a very big difference and that we cannot blame someone on a behavior, an addiction,” he adds, stressing that “the healthcare system is open to everyone. « . Nevertheless, he questions: “A screening system, we must [le faire] every five years. Do we have to have exactly the same protection and the same reimbursement rate, if we neglect it [par rapport à] someone who doesn’t neglect him? »

« I would not like one day to say that health care spending is exploding because [que] a whole section of so-called irresponsible behavior […] call into question the responsibility of all”, argues Martin Hirsch.

He had already mentioned the non-free treatment for the unvaccinated of Covid, through a forum published on January 25 on the site of the World : “We can ask the question in crude terms: is it logical to benefit from free healthcare when you have refused free vaccination for yourself and you are doubly endangering others, by being able to contaminate them and by being able to take a place in intensive care needed for another patient?”

In argument, Martin Hirsch believed that there was “perhaps a way of finally giving real meaning to prevention by linking protection and respect for prevention”. “It is an eminently complex and sensitive question, but which must be tackled if we do not want to see the systems of solidarity weakened by lack of adhesion or by their non-sustainability”, he had argued. 

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