The recognition as a “long-term condition” (ALD) of endometriosis, a disease which affects around 10% of women of childbearing age, does not have to become “systematic”, government spokesperson Olivier Véran said on Wednesday. . The government will not intervene on this subject before the RN defends a text to this effect on October 12 in the Assembly, he added during his report from the Council of Ministers.
By opening its parliamentary “niche” with a proposed law on endometriosis, the National Rally intends to achieve a parliamentary victory by cornering its adversaries, who are wondering about the strategy to adopt in the face of a consensual text. The ALD status allows full coverage by Health Insurance.
Recalling the existence of a “national strategy to combat endometriosis”, according to him “the most ambitious in all of Europe”, and which concerns the recognition of this little-known disease, but also research into its treatment of pain, Olivier Véran considered that his “systematic” passage in ALD was “a real subject of debate”. “The committee of experts that I had instructed to reflect on the question (as Minister of Health, Editor’s note) had decided against systematic recognition […] in ALD, because there are forms which are more or less severe,” he noted.
He added that “thousands of women” suffering from this chronic illness already benefited from this status, and that there was “no consensus” among the associations on “the question of systematic recognition in ALD”. “We intervened on the subject well before the RN and its deputies were elected to Parliament,” insisted Olivier Véran.
In a press release, four deputies from the left wing of Renaissance (En commun!) announced that they would abstain on October 12 even “if certain proposals go in the right direction and serve the general interest”, castigating “the true intention of the RN (which) is to continue to seek to restore its image”.