several days of demonstrations planned in Paris and Île-de-France

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An ad that doesn't get through. Everywhere in France, taxis are mobilizing against the reduction in mileage rates for patient transport announced by Health Insurance. In Paris and Île-de-France, several operations are planned, including a gathering in the heart of the capital.

Slowdowns to be expected

Thus, the “Team Taxi” association launched, via its social networks, a call to rally “before the National Assembly”, at 8 a.m., Tuesday 3, Wednesday 4 and Thursday 5 December 2024. Significant slowdowns are therefore to be expected.

Disruptions will also take place in other departments of Île-de-France. According to information from franceinfothe National Taxi Federation is planning actions in Hauts-de-Seine and Seine-Saint-Denis. “Drivers will come from all over France,” said Walid Hanidapresident of the association. Around fifty Norman drivers should join the mobilization.

Concretely, Health Insurance provides to lower the price per kilometer from 1.50 euros to 1 euro, which would have an impact on the remuneration of taxi drivers. “If I no longer have sanitation, if I no longer have my patients, if I no longer have my sick, I will die,” he confided to the microphone of RMC a driver from Lyon.

Another measure currently being negotiated by Health Insurance which outrages professionals: the sharing a taxi by several patients. “An immunocompromised patient, who is undergoing very heavy chemotherapy, or a transplant recipient, or someone who is on dialysis, must have specific conditions that are protective. Being with other patients, there can be infections which are dangerous for these people,” worries, still speaking to the radio, by Catherine Simonmember of the France Asso Santé office.

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