(ASCA) - Viareggio, 27 September - 'Privatising hospitals'? Nothing new under the sun." This is how former health minister Livia Turco replies to journalists who ask her for a comment on what Silvio Berlusconi said yesterday regarding the privatization of hospitals in some regions.
“It was known that the government's policy was the privatization of health care – he added -. There are many fine words in Sacconi's white paper but the substance is that they want to reduce public health”.
After all, according to Turco, this process "has already begun" as evidenced by "decree 112 which imposed cuts to the regions and a reduction of 5 billion for the next few years".
Therefore, concluded Turco, the government is already following this path "and the harmful effects will be seen in a while".
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