ROME (ITALPRESS) – The national president of the Italian Association of Hospital and Territorial Healthcare Companies and Private Law Residential and Territorial Healthcare Companies responds to the GIMBE Foundation’s elaboration of a major increase in Private Healthcare Spending. “The GIMBE Foundation made a gross error, as the Bocconi researchers pointed out, and we expect them to acknowledge it. Private health spending represents a very complex chapter, which we can only understand well if we go and read the trend over time, over many successive years, of this spending. If we read this figure, which is provided to us by Istat, we see that the value of this expenditure over the last fifteen years is basically stable and permanently revolves around 2 percent of the value of GDP. On the other hand, the share of private spending, in the context of the entire Italian health expenditure, also remains constant over the years,” Gabriele Pelissero, national president of Aiop, told the newspaper Il Giornale, responding to the words of the president of the GIMBE Foundation, Nino Cartabellotta, on the reporting of an important increase in Private Health Spending. According to GIMBE, private spending on care has grown by 10 percent in one year. This position has also been criticized by researchers at Bocconi University. “This means that the propensity on the part of Italian citizens to contribute in some way to the purchase of health care, or even socio-health care services, in part the responsibility of the National Health Service, in part not, represents a structural behavior of our country and above all that the events of recent years do not show any form of significant modification of this behavior. Aiop is working on a large study that will meticulously document this interesting phenomenon, which will be presented in the first months of the year 2025,” concludes Pelissero, who in another interview with the newspaper La Verità , regarding the budget law explains, “In the economic maneuver, based on the figures that are circulating, I do not see that upheaval of which some people speak. Certainly the health care system is in an undeniable difficulty but one that stems from the gradual disinvestment made over the past decade, Now it seems to me that additional resources are being put in and it can only be a beneficial operation after a long period of senseless cuts.”
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