A13, A15 motorways, Paris ring road, Rennes ring road, Toulouse-Blagnac airport, Bordeaux airport… Taxis disrupted for the fifth time, Monday March 4, several major routes throughout France in order to obtain transport. Health insurance a renegotiation of patient transportation.
The processions from Ile-de-France were to converge in Paris, on the Place du Trocadéro, at the call of the FNAT (National Federation of Taxi Craftsmen) and the FNDT (National Taxi Federation), two of the main professional organizations. Traffic in the Paris region was therefore particularly disrupted; the peak traffic jam reached 430 kilometers shortly before 9 a.m. Some four hundred taxis took part in the operation according to Emmanuelle Cordier, president of the FNAT.
The national movement, organized at the call of the FNDT and the FNAT, aims to review the medical transport agreement negotiated with Health Insurance. “Faced with unsustainable new pricing (…), taxis are mobilizing for the survival of medical taxis, in order to continue to guarantee quality service to French people who require it,” the two organizations wrote in a press release. The demonstrators also denounce the “unfair competition” of VTCs and the non-compliance with the Grandguillaume law, which provides, among other things, to prohibit electronic marauding, to require VTCs to return to the garage after each race.
Movement renewed on Tuesday
“The first reason is the new tariff protocols that the National Health Insurance Fund made us sign last January,” Bernard Crebassa, president of FNAT, explained on Monday on Sud Radio. “Today, we are working on prices that we used in 2018. Before being essential for taxis, medical transport is for the entire population in France. It is a transport service that allows everyone to receive treatment. » Bernard Crebassa also explained that the organizations have not yet met the Minister of Health and said he was worried: “We worry when we hear Bruno Le Maire say that he doesn’t care about the grumbling of the taxis! “.
In Occitania, medical transport “represents 40 to 100% of the activity. Medical transport has a very heavy impact on our economy, because we are very dependent on it,” Stéphane Abeilhou, spokesperson for the National Taxi Union for Haute-Garonne, told Agence France-Presse.
The request from taxi organizations to be received at Matignon remains unanswered for the moment. They plan to renew the movement on Tuesday if they do not obtain a meeting with the executive.
