Spending on healthcare: -1.2% in 5 years. Schlein: «The government cuts and Italians give up treatment»
Nadef estimates on the impact on GDP: «In the medium term +1.9 points for pensions and -0.3 for schools». The opposition attacks
The incidence of healthcare spending on GDP is decreasing: in 5 years, between 2020 and 2025, it will go from 7.4% to 6.2%, i.e. 1.2 points less.
This is what a technical forecast table from Nadef reports, although it must be taken into account that in 2020 the GDP recorded a strong contraction due to the initial phase of the Covid emergency.
In the medium term to 2036, assuming an average annual growth in GDP of around 1%, pension spending is estimated to increase by 1.9 points (to 17.3%) compared to 2024, compared to an increase of 0. 4 points for healthcare and a 0.3 point drop in spending on education.
The data on healthcare spending and the measures for the sector that will end up in the next budget have not failed to arouse harsh comments from the opposition forces to the Meloni government.
«Giorgia Meloni's government – says PD secretary Elly Schlein – continues to cut the national health service while one in five Italians gives up treatment due to the crisis. The public health situation forces more and more Italians to
not to care and the government's response is to further cut funding: a very serious and incomprehensible attitude that we will not let pass over in silence. All people - continues the dem leader - must know that Meloni, while looking for an enemy a day, is dismantling our right to health piece by piece".
(Unioneonline/lf)
