Dental Rates: The End of transparency

A law of April 2009, implemented in March 2010, until forced dentists to be transparent in indicating the cost of each service and the price of the equipment supplied by the prosthetist. The legislature wanted to force the dentists to practice moderate and acceptable margins on the purchase price of dentures and improve factual information to patients. The dentists were immediately protested against this law they deemed it "unjust and disastrous" and that affected their image. Lobbying of elected officials has borne fruit, because the Senate has put an end to this law virtually stillborn on March 9. A decline detrimental to many patients forego dental care, lack of resources.

The original text had already lost a significant portion of its contents: Outside of the purchase price of the equipment that was clear and so divorced from the associated services, the practitioner must inform his patient of origin dentures. The law would have allowed to control the traceability of prostheses that one in three is made abroad to cut costs (including China). The outcry from the profession has resulted in a decision that came delete this provision, the law holding that the obligation of transparency on the price.
On 9 March, the Senate voted to end the obligation. The Health Minister, Xavier Bertrand, supports this decision and even states that want price transparency should apply to all commercial professions, dentists are primarily health professionals who do not seek profits Sale of property. Yet, given the difference in cost of dental care in France, this law would have to curb some excesses tariff. By region, the cost of a prosthesis varies up to threefold; heal in Paris or in a large city has far more impact on the family budget in the provinces. Without mutual or complementary health care, many can not bear the burden remains invisible after the repayment of Social Security.
By lifting the end of opacity on the dental fee, the former health minister, Roselyne Bachelot, had attempted to enforce the right of patients to better information. By ending this legislation today, the legislature does not act on behalf of policyholders, but the game is a powerful professional category at 14 months of an important election