You have to do a medical specialist? A specific examination? Surgery? You go at the nearest public health facility, North, the center or the south is indifferent, and I heard them say: "Yeah we put on the waiting list, we'll call in a few months ".
That is the main reason for which recent research Censis Foundation, stated that over the 38% of Italians in the last two years has turned to private health care.
Scrolling through the research data, with lower percentages, there are other reasons that have encouraged this choice: The message from friends and / or relatives, The choice of which doctor to seek treatment and have no public health facilities in my area of residence.
Even Istat, with its investigation on "The care and use of health services" periodically detects the waiting times for different type of specialist (accredited private, private pay full, public and public pay full) and tells us that a total for a visit to the specialist type most people waited more than two weeks, but that the percentages dart upward, seen that people who turn to the public sector expect an average of more.
It is urgent then a reorganization of the health / welfare in general (think, for example the substantial weight of care to the chronically ill, which falls mainly on families with unsustainable outcomes and weights) with the necessary integration of public / private.
Technicians and experts in the choice of the best solution, the important thing is that there is a prompt response from the competent institutions, taking into account that the State is responsible ethical task to ensure that all citizens universal access to essential services, regardless of their income possibilities, the so-called "Right to health" enshrined in law 833/78, establishing the National Health Service.
Alex Gaetani
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