Sit-in today in front of the Lamezia Terme Hospital. South calls north, Cateno De Luca’s movement. The initiative was attended by Massimo Cristiano, regional coordinator, and Laura Castelli, national president of ScN Libertà!. The initiative, it is written in a note, marks the start, from Calabria, of the petition “no more European cuts to healthcare”. “For us – it is written in a note from the regional secretariat of South calls North – healthcare means life, prevention, health, well-being, rights. All this has become only a privilege for a few: ‘if you have money you can be treated, otherwise you die’. Are we at a point of no return, or are we imposing ourselves on this liberticidal Europe to demand that health spending is above all else, which is the first necessity of a people, a fundamental and inalienable right, we must acknowledge that the priority for we Italians are very different from the bureaucrats of Brussels, we are the welfare state, they, this European Union, are a technocracy. Spending on healthcare is defined by Europe as ‘bad debt’, as if it were an expense that you can choose not to make or that is negligible and suppressable for every citizen. Healthcare is a necessary expense, unless someone wants to make us all die.” “Here – continues the note – it is no longer a debate between those who want public healthcare and those who want it private, given that we want it public. What is being said here is that healthcare should no longer exist for most people. Because as will happen from January 1st 2025, at the hands of the current government, the resources to be given to hospitals to provide healthcare services will be reduced by a fifth. They are effectively closing hospitals and bringing the entire public and private healthcare system to collapse. They call it a healthcare nomenclature, for us it’s called an atomic bomb on our healthcare. The concrete effect is what we are already partly seeing, that is, large multinationals buying up every corner of our healthcare system, making everything increasingly expensive and inaccessible.”
