Schlein: “We are worried about cuts to healthcare.” When the PD made them they were good…
Elly Schlein is worried, she probably can't sleep anymore at night. What does the Secretary of the PD say to Il Fatto Quotidiano ?
“ Health is an area on which convergences with other opposition forces are possible , because we are all worried about the cuts to public healthcare that the Meloni government is carrying out”. This was claimed by the Democratic Party secretary, Elly Schlein, on the sidelines of a meeting with the Democratic Party group in the Chamber, called for the presentation of two bills on the dissolution of neo-fascist organisations.
The dem secretary spoke of the need to " stop the havoc of the dismantling of public health ", underlining some possible points of synthesis with M5s, Avs, Iv and Action: "The increase in the national health fund, lifting the hiring freeze and investing on local healthcare they are fronts on which to build synergies", continued the secretary.
Is Schlein worried about public spending cuts? What mysterious planet was it on when the PD-led governments that have led Italy for the last 20 years were making much larger cuts?
Gimbe who provides this figure of 37 billion in cuts in Piddini or pro-Piddini governments is certainly not a foundation of the populist right, on the contrary. Yet it certifies 37 billion in cuts, very painful, in the moments of greatest crisis of the Italian economy. Do you think that if the super pro-European Schlein had been in government she would have increased spending or cut what could be cut, to keep the Commission and austere Germany happy?
Among other things, the Meloni government found itself having to face a structural situation summarized in the image below, which indicates the number of beds per 1000 inhabitants in 2021, i.e. before the installation of the new government
The current government found itself in a situation in which many structures were now closed, the number of beds decreasing, also as a consequence of the war of many governors against small hospitals, closed to save finances despite serving the community. Now going back is expensive and difficult.
Among other things, the data that Schlein talks about are not the budget data, which have yet to be written, but those of the NADEF which is not the budget, but writes the general trend that the budget law must correct. In fact, the president of the Social Affairs Commission on La Verità today spoke not of a cut, but of an increase of 3 billion in health spending, to be financed with various items, including gambling.
Future healthcare certainly presents challenges. This is a service that requires a lot of staff and this is a problem at a time when demographics show a strong aging of the population. Some countries are already investing to face these new challenges, such as Japan, where innovative solutions are being studied:
These are practical problems that require an innovative mindset, not Schlein's slogans. Repeated, by the way, rather badly.
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