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| Welcome to consumer-driven healthcare, Italy: Thoughts about Hospitals, Medicine and Health Care Issues |
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by Paul Levy - July 1, 2011
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Provided by Not Running a Hospital
A story in today's Wall Street Journal European and online editions covers a plan by the Italian government to introduce austerity measures in response to their fiscal crisis:
Included in the budget plan, which the government hopes Parliament will approve before the end of July, [is] the introduction of fees for medical visits.
I think people in much of the world will be surprised to learn that there have been no such fees to date. I guess it is time for Italians to learn about co-pays. Will it have an influence on the degree to which they seek medical care?
Paul Levy is the former CEO of a large Boston hospital. He blogs to share thoughts about hospitals, medicine, and health care issues. Paul is an advocate for patient-driven care, eliminating preventable harm, transparency of clinical outcomes, and front-line driven process improvement.
The viewpoint expressed in this article is the opinion of the author and is not necessarily the viewpoint of the owners or employees at Healthcare Staffing Innovations, LLC.
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