
The secretary of the PD asks to bring health spending to 7 percent of GDP in view of the budget
PD secretary Elly Schlein supports the appeal of the presidents of six regions for adequate public health financing, asking to bring spending to 7% of GDP in the next budget law.
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Six regional presidents have asked the government for adequate funding for public health in the next budget.
"We make our own the cry of alarm and the appeal that the presidents of six Regions have addressed to the government, once again asking to adequately finance Italian public healthcare. And it is incredible that we have to resort to appeals and invocations, in order to guarantee citizens the right to health, provided for by the Constitution".
Thus in a note the secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein, speaking about the measures in view of the maneuver.
"We ask to bring health spending - he adds - to the European average of 7 percent of GDP because we cannot continue to ask the National Health Service to manage with resources that are not up to the needs of people and territories, nor pass the shortfall onto the regions that cannot cope on their own. The resources for 2027 foreseen by the Budget Plan will be 2.4 billion, less than half of what was also requested by Minister Schillaci. The presidents of the Michele Regions have therefore done well de Pascale, Stefania Proietti, Alessandra Todde, Eugenio Giani, Roberto Fico and Antonio Decaro to ask that healthcare is truly the priority of the next budget law. The government listens to the Regions, stops making proclamations and makes it a real priority".
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
The government will address the issue of health funds during the definition of the budget law.
Very likely · Within weeks

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