Lettere - 18/04/2023
Decentralized autonomy: how regions feather their own nests
Autonomia differenziata: come le regioni portano l’acqua al loro mulino
The risk of fragmenting the Italian National Health Service once and for all is real, after the Government supported a new decentralization plan for regional Autonomia differenziata (Decentralized Autonomy, henceforth DA).1 DA will allocate further decision-making, organizational, and financing responsibilities on a series of public policies to regions.1 In the health sector it is the culmination of a 30-year-long decentralization process that was expected to cure long-standing inequalities…