Health Insurance Chief Comments on 'Prescribing Better'

Thomas Fatôme, the director general of the French National Health Insurance (Assurance-maladie), discussed the need to ‘prescribe better’ during the current Bioethics General Assembly. The assembly is focusing on ‘sobriety’ in healthcare. Fatôme believes the healthcare system’s focus on financial considerations drives its decisions, and this needs to change to manage rising healthcare costs and life expectancy.

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