COVID-19 hits the French health system
Journal of Australian Political Economy
2020
85
94-100
epidemic disease ; health service ; welfare state ; hospital ; privatization ; government policy
Social protection - Health policy
English
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"On 28 February 2020 the WHO issued a report on China's efforts to control the Coronavirus outbreak, dictating a comprehensive governmentled response to the threat. On 29 February, the French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe chose to divert priorities from a Ministerial Council dedicated to COVID-19 by utilising article 49-3 of the Constitution to bypass Parliament and authorise a brutal retirement ‘reform' package, against which vast sections of the country had struck and demonstrated. ..."
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