24 hours: letter of December 3, 2024

Health

The Federal Court allows insurers to no longer reimburse the emergency tax. Worse, insurers go further than the ruling of the TF and therefore arbitrarily demand the retrocession of sums that they consider undue, over five years, which could lead to the bankruptcy of permanent care structures.

On what basis, a posteriori, can the insurer assert that the consultation was not urgent, without a systematic request for a diagnosis, via their medical advisors? We cannot blame the patient. Primary care physicians are currently overloaded. Worse, some, even when called to their offices, send their own patients to emergency outpatient centers!

Of course, we must differentiate real urgency from felt urgency. An ordinary feverish state can be the first symptom of severe and fatal meningococcal meningitis; abdominal pain, the expression of a dissecting aortic aneurysm; chest pain, heart attack or esophageal spasm? etc. Nothing is banal. It is not up to the patient to decide for themselves. It is only after a clinical and paraclinical evaluation, by an experienced professional, that the “urgent” nature is no longer so.

Now, in these conditions, which outpatient medical structure will still accept to be on duty 24 hours a day, every day of the week? Patients will therefore go to emergency hospital services, which are already overloaded; likewise, they will be ordered to no longer bill the emergency tax.

There will be deaths and trials. Insurers will have to answer for their deadly decisions and be in the dock.

D^r Jean-Pierre Randin, Lausanne

Lausanne

Personally, these famous bollards in Lausanne do not bother me. I find them much less ugly and polluting than all these huge SUVs which, moreover, take up considerable space to the detriment of cars of smaller and more reasonable size.

I agree with the Municipality of Lausanne on the need to rebalance public space and calm neighborhoods. Thanks to municipal councilor Florence Germond, no offense to some.

We are lucky in Lausanne to have a very good public transport service. Let’s leave the car to those who really need it.

Nathalie Gauthier, Lausanne

Handicap

Celebrated since 1992 at the initiative of the UN, December 3 is declared “International Day of People with Disabilities”. And in Switzerland, where are we from the point of view of those affected? To say that our country is behind in many respects would be an pleonasm! Example: inaccessibility on public transport. As the winter session of the Federal Chambers begins with the implicit continuation of the revision of the law on equality for people with disabilities (LHand) which is currently more about exclusion than about inclusion and three months almost to the day after the submission of our initiative entitled “Disability Inclusion”, it is high time that our authorities put into practice the last sentence of the preamble to our Federal Constitution.

Nouh Latoui, member of the Central Committee Association Cerebral Suisse, Lausanne

Succession

Mr. Félicien Monnier’s column (“24 Heures” of November 19) is emblematic of a movement back to ultraconservative values ​​in academic matters, and even education in general, which is gaining momentum, stimulated by the election who you know. It’s “the recovery” after which the Vaudois right is running.

She is openly delighted to see the rector, Herman, throw in the towel: she was killed. UNIL has had a difficult year, and its management, which tried to promote dialogue and openness to experimentation rather than repression, was certainly not crowned with success, in the face of particularly aggressive protagonists. and intolerant.

The university has, thank God, always been the place of experimentation, intellectual and societal, of research outside the framework, quickly qualified as abuses by the censors. But teachers are not masters of learning. They have talent, ideas and opinions, which we qualify as activism when they “disturb” (Mr. Monnier dixit), in other words when they challenge the taboos put in place by conservatives, as by example in terms of climate change. Ah! How we miss Professor Dominique Bourg!

However, it is only in dictatorships and in societies without freedom that universities are limited to being places of strict professional training. Unfortunately, this is clearly what Mr. Monnier and these deputies who, it seems, are worried and are threatening to cut off funds at UNIL.

In any case, the traps, barbed wire and Toblerone set by the hyperconservatives on the University square are not likely to arouse vocations among potential successors of the rector, who to do well, should have their PLR or the UDC!

Philippe Barraud, Cully

Federal Council

The newspapers have informed us that the employment contract of the personal collaborator of Federal Councilor Viola Amherd, despite her age of 70, has been extended. His salary is 1140 francs per day. It is higher than that of the President of the United States. But there is better. A former military officer was awarded daily fees of 1,800 francs for fifteen months, or 58% more than the top civil servant. It appears that these are common remunerations granted to external collaborators. Congratulations again and congratulations to the lucky beneficiaries!

On the other hand, our seven Wise Men, with the laudable concern of presenting a 2025 budget that is not too deficit, decided, on August 14, to reduce the Confederation’s contribution to AVS expenses from 20.2 to 19, 5%. And, so as not to stop halfway, they also recommend eliminating AVS pensions for widows whose children have become adults. Good luck to widowed mothers who, after having devoted their energies to the home, possibly with part-time jobs, without the possibility of professional progress, must find a job for the few years remaining until retirement.

Werner Blum, Vaud Federation of Retirees, Échallens

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