2024-07-30 13:22:42
(ANSA) – ROME, JULY 30 – The Italian health service is “close to the point of no return”. The alarm is being raised, contesting the law on differentiated autonomy, by the Uil which, in a study, highlights the costs for citizens if healthcare were to become only private, with the further aggravating factor that these would be higher in the south where the offer of services is less.
The government, “to wink at private healthcare – the union notes – turns its back on public healthcare. All the measures of the Meloni Executive in terms of healthcare, starting from the budget laws to the recent decree to abolish lists, go in the direction of a strengthening of private healthcare to the detriment of public healthcare. A direction that increasingly aggravates the economic malaise of many Italian families”. Hence the analysis – carried out in three regions, namely Lombardy, Lazio and Calabria – on the effects that would be suffered by family budgets in the event that, in order to be treated, in the presence of a progressive dismantling of public healthcare, one were forced to turn only to pure private healthcare.
A person requiring hospitalization for low complexity, in the absence of the NHS, would have to sustain a daily expense that varies from a minimum of €422 to a maximum of €1,178 in Lombardy, from €435 to €1,278 in Lazio and from €552 to €1,480 in Calabria. For a surgical procedure such as the removal of a breast tumor, most often followed by radiotherapy, instead, one would have to sustain an expense that can reach a maximum of €29,400 in Lombardy, €32,400 in Lazio and €48,400 in Calabria.
The analysis shows that as “private healthcare supply decreases, compared to the demand for care, rates increase.
This explains why the costs of some services in Calabria are higher than those in Lombardy and Lazio”.
Therefore, “to protect and relaunch the NHS, it is necessary to: stop the Calderoli law on differentiated regionalism; establish the GDP/health expenditure ratio at the levels of the EU average; fight waste in the Regions”. In fact, in the hypothesis of a private-only healthcare system, concludes the Uil, “renouncement of treatment for categories such as workers and pensioners would be an obligatory path. The progressive retreat of public healthcare is a mortal blow to family budgets and a reduction in the right to health”. (ANSA).
2024-07-30 13:22:42