Below is a suggested translation for the test you did last week. The most common serious mistakes were the use of the "ing" (it is a rise, not a rising), the use of "the" (we want to encourage good practice, not the good practice.
Doctors have successfully negotiated a rise of one euro in fees for a medical consultation, in exchange for the promise to make savings of 1.4 billion euros over two years, by the end of 2007.
The price of a visit to a GP will rise to 21 euros on the 1st of August. Fees for examining a young child , between two and six years old, will be at the specific rate of 23 euros from the 15th of April.
The CFDT, one of the main French trade union federations objected to “the general and indiscriminate nature of this rise”. It spoke of the “missed opportunity” to encourage good practice, and complained that the rise in fees “ has come into effect before it is even known whether health cost reduction objectives for 2006 and 2007 will be reached or not”.
The Health Insurance department agreed to concede a number of things to self-employed doctors, after three months of tense negotiations. Two of the three doctors’ unions, including the strongest one, the CSMF, signed this amendment to the January 2005 convention which set up the “family doctor” scheme. Doctors are being asked for “a similar level of effort to 2005”, explained a spokesperson for the CNAM, the National Health Insurance Department.
The authorities wanted above all to avoid a blocking of the efforts at controlling the medical budget, something which would have put in danger the August 2004 reform. This reform was meant to clean up the accounts before 2007, the year of the presidential elections.
Some doctors are stressing the fact that the governement, who is already faced with unrest about the Youth employment contract, and with the dual health crises over bird flu and chikungunyu, might well have put pressure on the health insurance organization to be flexible and avoid starting another fight with doctors.
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