Rocca (Lazio): 'Schillaci's law works, this is how'
For the president, the money is needed, but 'the point is to start doing good spending', and with regard to the tug-of-war between the minister and the regions over the implementation of the regulations, he explains that 'an arbiter is needed'.
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"Waiting lists are a systemic problem and to be tackled requires the analysis of an entire territory: this has been our priority. And even before the Schillaci decree, we created the single Cup that includes private accredited providers. To the seventeen centres that refused to make their booking agendas available, the contracts were not renewed'. For Francesco Rocca, at the head of the Lazio Region presented as a virtuous model by Minister Schillaci, the anti-list law 'goes in the right direction'.
Regions complain of a risk-interference by the ministry...
The health service is universal and must be guaranteed for all citizens: if there is a major difficulty in a territory, I believe it is right that the national government should deal with it. On the one hand there is an ordinal principle that worries my fellow presidents with respect to the profile of responsibility in the management of healthcare, which the Constitution attributes to the Regions; on the other hand there may be fears of interference, which I personally have never perceived. What is certain is that someone has to referee.
Among other things, the minister denounces wastefulness or non-use of resources.
Many technical tasks we had anticipated and this allows us to appear as the best performers: to have started from the reading of the need in order to respond appropriately and promptly to shortcomings also means spending money well. Putting resources on lists without knowing where to intervene means throwing them into a black hole
