The Regions reject the Waiting List Decree, Donini: “The government bypasses us, we ask for changes”
"Abstract and uncovered provision". Also criticized by the opposition: "It's just propaganda three days before the vote"
BOLOGNA – “Pure electoral propaganda three days before the vote”, “farce decree”, “bad commercial”: this is the criticism of the skeptics on the government’s measure to reduce waiting lists in public healthcare companies , launched by the Council of Ministers.
The leaders are the Regions, those labeled as “red”, but not only. In fact, the first to speak and express doubts about the legislative decree on waiting lists is Raffaele Donini, health councilor of Emilia-Romagna and also coordinator of the health commission in the Conference of the Regions.< /strong> Therefore he announces the presentation, in the next few days, of requests for changes to the provision, “unanimously agreed”. The Regions “had the text of the decree only a few hours after the Council of Ministers – Donini points out first – which means that our opinion was not considered useful to acquire it in advance. So let us at least save ourselves the embarrassment of having to deny any reference to concertation with the Regions”. In essence, it is a decree “still without financial coverage and very abstract – he underlines – On the one hand, the desire to deprive the Regions of their health planning function is evident, this perhaps explains the lack of involvement of the same, with mechanisms of direction, control and inspection by the Government directly towards the local health authorities and not the Regions”. In this way, the councilor attacks, “we move from the rhetoric of differentiated autonomy to autonomy in the undifferentiated”.
THE REGIONS REJECT THE GOVERNMENT: “WE ARE EXHAUSTED”
At the same time, with the decree on waiting lists the Government “is pushing the accelerator further on the privatization of healthcare – Donini points the finger – both by favoring the freelance professional activity of doctors to the detriment of strengthening the public healthcare system , and by raising the spending ceiling for accredited private individuals, without first ensuring adequate funding for the public system”. The councilor then underlines how “many organizational provisions of the decree are already present in some regions, including Emilia-Romagna, in light of the council’s resolution on waiting lists last April. Just think of the impossibility of tolerating lists closed or to the mandatory taking over of the reservation or to the recall for carrying out the visit with attached penalty for those who do not show up”. Finally, concludes Donini, “artificial intelligence is welcome to work on the appropriateness of requests for visits and tests as is already being studied in Emilia-Romagna”.
From Tuscany, it is the regional councilor for Health, Simone Bezzini, who comments on the provision presented by Minister Schillaci: “The decree on waiting lists is a unsuccessful electoral advert – stigmatizes – It is a largely redundant act that does not take into account the already existing tools, a measure lacking the organizational innovations and strategies to promote appropriateness that would be truly necessary to contain the phenomenon of electoral lists ‘waiting. All this is well highlighted in the eighteen pages of critical findings raised by the Regions’ technicians”. And again, “the most serious thing – continues the councilor – is that it does not provide for additional funds. A choice which confirms the government’s desire to move towards the privatization of the healthcare system. Even the revision of spending ceilings for personnel, without the relative increase in resources is a decoy”.
BONACCINI (PD): “SCHILLACI AMONG THE WORST MINISTERS EVER”
“It’s incredible that a decree is being passed three days before the vote to reduce waiting lists without there being financial coverage. It’s pure electoral propaganda.” Stefano Bonaccini takes things up a notch, following the decree to reduce waiting lists. The funds indicated by Minister Orazio Schillaci to implement the measure “are not enough in the slightest”, he notes in his dual role as governor of Emilia-Romagnaand president of the Democratic Party. Not only that: “This minister, who is certainly a decent person, I consider him one of the worst ministers the country has had on public health – he adds, attacking Orazio Schillaci, Minister of Health, guest of Skytg24 – because he continues to denounce what is wrong but is unable to do anything to resolve it”. Finally, “Ask my centre-right colleagues what they really think of that provision – Bonaccini says – If they have the courage to say what they do. we say to ourselves in private they would say that it has not been discussed on its merits with the Regions and that it has no financial coverage”.
Still from the Democratic Party, Annamaria Furlan, member of the Health Commission, rejects the decree on waiting lists, calling it “a farce three days before the elections”. The decree is “a series of announcements that will only remain on paper. Without concrete resources to hire healthcare personnel, the problem of waiting lists will not be solved”. And again, Matteo Ricci, mayor of Pesaro and coordinator of the Dem mayors, candidate for the Democratic Party in the next European elections, considers it “ridiculous” that the Meloni Government approves a law decree for the elimination of the lists of waiting in health facilities: “Have Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her ministers only now realized how dramatically the waiting lists have grown in the last two years? Do they now realize that they have defunded the National Health System?”.
BOSCHI AND RENZI (IV): “DECRETE THAT NOTHING CHANGES, THE MONEY IS NOT THERE”
Thumbs down also from Italia Viva. “After two years of government and three days before the elections, Meloni discovered that there are waiting lists. And she made the usual decree-decree, in which she promises everything and changes nothing”, says Matteo Renzi. Rather, leader IV proposes that the government cancel “the madness of the migrant centers in Albania” and “give that money to healthcare”. Along the same lines Maria Elena Boschi who on money for it to work. And there is no money in the Meloni decree, but 850 million is wasted on fake centers in Albania”. Then Raffaella Paita, national coordinator of Italia Viva, speaks: “Even on a delicate topic like that of healthcare Giorgia Meloni, for a change, has decided to make fun of our fellow citizens”
M5S: “THE GOVERNMENT MAKES SQUALD PROPAGANDA ON THE WAITING LISTS”
“The Meloni government’s propaganda on healthcare, and in particular on the waiting lists, is squalid It is being done on something that creates desperation and pain”, says Francesco Silvestri, M5S group leader in the Chamber. “The nonsense about “Mattarella must resign” or about the tenth Mas is one thing – he continues, making the matter worse – it’s another thing to trample on decency by announcing interventions in the healthcare world which are essentially empty and without a euro of investments. reading the statements of some members of the majority makes you feel ashamed for them.” While Mariolina Castellone, Senator of the 5 Star Movement in the Social Affairs Commission and Vice President of the Senate, the decree of the government on the waiting lists is “the usual shell game: not having the courage to find the resources where they exist, the necessary measures are included in a bill, which who knows when will see the light”. What remains in the decree is “very little and at no cost – continues the senator – the reduction of waiting lists is only in the title”. Because “any decree to reduce waiting lists that does not include the hiring of staff is pure propaganda”, he concludes. Finally, “they wrote the decree, then they forgot to put the money in it. A very small detail that makes this decree ineffective and even a little ridiculous”, urges Senator Luca Pirondini of the 5 Star Movement, at Agorà Rai Tre.
The CGIL closes the circle of skeptics on the Waiting List Decree: for the confederal secretary Daniela Barbaresi in fact “the awaited intervention on the waiting lists for health services is a great electoral advert it will turn into bigflopfor people and staff.The government has given birth to a little mouse.”