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Published by Marta Strinati on 25 May 2024

Against the privatization of healthcare

The European network 'Health is not for sale' is made up of various associations and trade unions active in various countries of the Union.

On the occasion of World Health Day, on 7 April 2024, organized a demonstration in Brussels and a conference at the European Parliament to urge the broadest stance in favor of public health and to stop the exponential growth of the rampant privatization of health services.

Appeal to candidates for the European Parliament

In view of the renewal of the European Parliament, with the elections on 8 and 9 June 2024, the Network asks all candidates to examine and sign a commitment to protect public health.

In Italy, the National Health Service 'is currently in a critical situation, due to the budgetary constraints imposed by European austerity policies and the growing risk of regional inequalities deriving from the hypothesis of differentiated autonomy.

Such factors they risk further undermining the universal right to health, a founding pillar of the welfare state', recalls the Network.

Leopard healthcare

The gravest threat to European public health systems is represented by the Stability Pact, which the Network hopes will be superseded and in any case the health spending of each Member State will be eliminated from it.

'We believe that right away action should be taken to exclude public spending on the health sector supported by the Member States from the calculation of the economic parameters envisaged', declaims the Internet.

In Italy then there is the aggravating circumstance of differentiated autonomy, which in the absence of a national standard could exacerbate the already marked differences in the healthcare services available in the various regions of the country. With the South always disadvantaged and reduced to a land of medical emigration towards a more efficient and rich Centre-North.

Full support for the 'Healthcare is not for sale' Network

Égalité and its founder Dario Dongo, candidate for the 2024 European elections with the Peace, Earth, Dignity movement, share and support the demands of the European Network 'Healthcare is not for sale'.

Upon reaching the age of 45 of the National Health System (NHS) we shared the GIMBE foundation's appeal to 'save' the Italian model of universal healthcare, which has always been exemplary for the whole world, but which is however losing efficiency more and more rapidly. (2)

The same urgency is contained in the electoral program of the lawyer Dario Dongo, candidate for the European Parliament, who underlines how the commitment signed in 2019 by the 194 UN member countries to 'invest at least 1% more of GDP in primary healthcare ' (31) was instead diverted towards armaments, resulting in the collapse of an increasingly privatized public health system. (3)

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Marta Strinati