From trade unions to trade associations, from professional associations to third sector bodies. It is not only the opposition that is mobilizing against thedifferentiated autonomythe law signed by the Northern League minister Roberto Calderoli – and approved after a long nocturnal marathon – which dictates the regulatory framework of the future agreements between the State and the Regions for the devolution of skills on 23 subjects, including health protection. In 14 of these matters, the agreements can only be closed after the definition of the The Pthe essential levels of benefits, which however will be determined by the government “starting from a reconnaissance of the historical spending of the State in each Region in the last three years” and “without new burdens” for public finances: therefore, according to critics, they will limit themselves to photographing the existing inequalities. The network insists precisely on this Alliance against poverty: “Differentiated autonomy represents yet another obstacle in the fight against poverty. Without Lep, territorial gaps will increase and the poor will grow“, denounces the spokesperson Antonio Russo. “Without the recognition of universal rights throughout the country,” he adds, “they will grow pockets of privilege only for some.”
As for health, the doctor Walter Ricciardi – former president of the Higher Institute of Health – forecastAdnKronos that the new law “will establish the definitive separation of the Southern Regions by the National Health Service”: “The gap that exists will increase enormously, in an irrecoverable way”, because “in fact it will become impossible to fill it“. In this sense the Federation of medical associationswith its president Filippo Anelliasks to “provide measures and interventions to ensure that health inequalities, which could widen with differentiated autonomy, are filled or avoid. As? Strengthening the role of the Ministry of Health and investing in healthcare and its professionals. In the past”, recalls Anelli, “we have intervened on this topic several times, expressing many concerns that this provision could in some way widen inequalities. The way forward is to give the government the possibility of intervening to reduce inequalities through strengthening the Ministry of Health, in such a way as to be able to intervene” where some regions or some territories “present serious differences in terms of health protection for their citizens”.
On the school issue, however, the intervention intervenes Uil with the general secretary of the trade union Giuseppe D’Aprile: “Differentiate the teaching organization by also touching rankings And staff salaries. Differentiate programming, training offer and school-work alternation paths, decide autonomously on the assignment of contributions to private schools and regionalize both the state funds for the right to education that the economic treatment of school staff. For schools, differentiated autonomy could translate into all of this,” she warns. The number one of the Flc Cgil is on the same line Gianna Fracassi: “Today is a bad day for Italian schools and for public knowledge institutions. With differentiated autonomy, a secessionist plan is created that does wastepaper from the social and territorial cohesion which are the basis of our Republic”. Also the president of Conftrasporto-Confcommercio Pasquale Russo anticipates the “negative effects” of the new law “on the planning and functionality of the system transport and logistics of the country”, fearing repercussions on the effectiveness of the system and the competitiveness of Italian companies.
