Health Cottarelli: cuts for another 3 to 5 billion without changing the system – The Messenger

In the health sector savings are possible additional “between three and five billion euro without changing the system, not to mention the savings on purchases of goods and services. ”

Executive Director of the IMF’s Carlo Cottarelli at the Meeting of Cl confirmation than anticipated from the Messenger defining “credible and achievable” goal of ten billion euro for next year put in the pipeline from the ‘spending review 2.0′ government. As to subsidiaries, Cottarelli not see positively the government’s choice to adopt the instrument of legislative delegation, reiterating that on this front would be possible “further action for 2 to 3 billion.”

Noting that the spending on health in Italy “has increased over the past thirty years, although less than it has happened in other countries,” and that the Italian system “is quite virtuous than even Germany,” the former commissioner of the spending review points out: “The national health system works, but there are savings to be mainly because the efficiency is very different across regions and also within each of them. A number of possible savings without disrupting the system is between three and cinquemiliardi additional savings compared to what has been done. There are wide margins. The important thing is to proceed with an intervention, “he concludes.

 22 August 2015 15:15 – Last Updated: 15:23

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