Health: MPs vote to regulate doctors' practice

On Wednesday evening, MPs approved at first reading a bill aimed at regulating the establishment of doctors in order to combat medical deserts.

The text, carried by a cross-party group of more than 250 deputies ranging from LFI to almost a third of the LR group and to which the profession and the government were opposed, was adopted by a very large margin by 99 votes to 9.

"We often say that when medical deserts advance, it is the Republic that retreats. This evening, we have put a little bit of the Republic back into our collective organization, this Republic that must watch over each of us, whoever we are, wherever we live, because our health cannot depend on our postal code," declared its rapporteur, Socialist MP Guillaume Garot, after the vote.

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