Health project “Private-Social” for the middle class in crisis – the Newspaper

A middle class that before the crisis is too poor to pay for private health care but too rich for use of the aid of the state. The attempt to propose an alternative model of “private-social.” It is an experimental program running from Rome to spread to other regions, when the trial period should deliver the expected results.

There are gray areas that open up unexpected and unknown in the landscape of Italian welfare, when the backlash of the economic difficulties widens social groups so far immune. A problem and a vacuum of care that seeks to provide answers experimental project developed by the Fondazione Onlus HC & R and made with the Diagnostic Center Pigafetta, the Rome American Hospital, and family doctors FIMMG of Lazio. The project, which started as an experiment in the Lazio region, will have a term of one year and is designed for families with average income of no more than 50 thousand Euros a year, without insurance coverage and who are not on the waiting list with the National Health Service . A band identified as being at risk, because the rich, despite the crisis, they are still rich and can afford to pay for private services, while the poor can make great use of a system of state aid.

The goal is to give the possibility to families in economic crisis to take advantage of health services provided by private hospitals without long waits and with savings between 30 and 50% for surgery, analysis, physiotherapy, specialist visits, and more. Specifically allow access to benefits such as surgery, performed on prescription, which will be carried out (at this early stage) in pilot areas such as health care in general surgery, oncology, gynecology, orthopedics and cardiology. But, not only among offers also the possibility to perform diagnostic imaging examinations, provision of dental, laboratory, nuclear medicine, physical therapy and rehabilitation and specialist visits. “We realized – said Luigi de Montis, president of the Foundation Health Care & Research Fund – that the middle-income segment of the population has many difficulties to bear the costs in order to protect their own health and that is that today, and even more in the future, will find it difficult to support. ”

“Today we have a problem of sustainability of the health system – said Senator Maria Rizzotti, vice president of the Healthcare Commission – and I am convinced that now is the time to achieve a greater integration between the public and private sectors. That’s why I consider with favor the project because in addition to meeting the needs of the citizens experiences a complementary relationship. ” The project also sees the support of family doctors. “We have no ideological foreclosures – explains Fabio Valenti’s FIMMG Lazio -. Decided to participate because the citizens, especially the Lazio have difficulty in accessing certain services. Which is why we need to give them the answers and we need to know where to direct the citizen is in public and private sectors. “