Health. How paying doctors has become a solution for local authorities in the face of medical deserts.

André Accary began by breaking the law. The president of the Saône-et-Loire departmental council (LR) believes he had no choice. In 2015, he noted that half of the 640 private doctors in his department were about to retire, while the population was aging and the measures put in place to attract doctors were producing "extremely modest results."

With time pressing, he sought information from health centers with doctors employed by municipalities. At that time, it was the town halls that were experimenting with this system of employed doctors, as in the Île-de-France region or in Amplepuis in the Rhône region.

André Accary wants to transpose the model to a departmental scale. It's 2017, and no one really believes it. "I explained my desire to create a departmental health center. Faced with the enthusiasm at ground zero of...

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