On linearity, it escapes most that the first linearity is the Monti government. Not the crisis or the recession. Its provisions are linear because the thinking that thinks the crisis without growth is linear. And on healthcare, the absence of strategic thinking is frightening.
02 AUG – Something is wrong. The Senate approves the maneuver (almost 7 billion in cuts) with an overwhelming majority, the Regions, and with them more than half the world, consider it lethal. Then, the Senate approves a lethal maneuver. On generic drugs, it must be said, the "war of principles" is unleashed to the point of obscuring, as he wrote Fassari, the real tragedy of public health…
Everyone is disgruntled and everything seems to lead to a close social clash, but up until now the only things that really clash are the toy cars at the carnival. There is a lot of noise but nothing more. The maneuver and, the one that will follow in the autumn, is mercilessly without petroleum jelly. Those in health care, the reformists, those of the centre-left, social associations, the trade unions, in unison repeat the usual refrain, lastly the Cnel, "cut but without cutting". The conscience-saving clause is about the way to cut, i.e. the "linearity". If you really have to cut, choose an intelligent butcher like for bombs, that is, bomb as well but try to hit the right targets.
On linearity, it escapes most that the first linearity is the Monti government… not the crisis… or the recession. Its provisions are linear because the thinking that thinks the crisis without growth is linear. Do you remember at the beginning? “Rigor, development, equity”. Rigor without development and without equity necessarily becomes linear. Nonlinearity is not a matter of smart bombs but of change. The Cnel curiously he stumbled upon an antinomy on the spending review: he attacks linear cuts, calling them plague and horns and… proposes linear financing… standard costs… the same ones that, up until Monti, had aroused the disgust of the refined palates of health economics and beyond. But the Fr
