health promotion
Mon, 11/05/2009 - 7:49pm
health promotion
For the purposes of disease prevention and the reduction of health risks, the EU should encourage Member States to place greater emphasis on health promotion. Funds should be earmarked for compulsory examination of the whole population, in accordance with the principle "prevention is less expensive that treatment". The EU should develop global disease prevention campaigns, particularly for HIV, diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular diseases.
We need a public and free of charge health service, something like the Italian one from 1978 forward. And nothing for foreigners, unless their Governments have signed Treaties about reciprocal covering medical treatments.
No tickets: it's unbelievable someone undergo useless surgical treatments or eat useless, and hence dangerous, pills only because they cost nothing.
On the othe side, we realize a right ticket system cannot exist, maybe because it's impossible, maybe because lawmakers are not honest, and they hit poor people. Two examples from Italy:
- dental medicine is not in LEA (a list of medical treatment that are considered necessary, and the State make anyone receive)! You often cannot get them even if paying tickets, you must go to a private doctor, without publicly controlled prices, or to Hungary.
- admission to public health (and lodging etc) is related to ISEE, but ISEE is not what you earn this year, bat also if you have a house or savings for your retirement, so ISEE is an awful mechanism that makes free the State to say "no" to nearly everybody, and compel them to sell their house in order to save their teeth or the like.
Paolo