Francesco Provenzano
   Italian
 
 
There is a transient atmosphere in the Parliament following June 7th second ballot and the centre-right escalation, mainly caused by the government parties' breakdown in some of the centre-left historical strongholds such as Parma, Piacenza and Lucca. 
The analyses of this vote are clearly different depending on the party that carries them out. 
This is part of the ritual that is repeated in every election. The numbers, however, cannot be interpreted in a different way by common citizens. 
The hindrances that this government is going to overcome are many and not less important than those the Popular Party (PPI)  will have to tackle: it will in fact have to decide the side it will be on, avoiding any further misunderstanding concerning the principles it draws inspiration from. 
The controversy between the bishops and the PPI, and Aznar and Chancellor Khol's stance within the European Parliament highlight the need for an ethically clear position that the PPI has so far been able to avoid. 
Meanwhile, the Health Commission of the Senate favourably accepted the document of economic and financial planning for the years 1999-2000. 
What follows are two articles from the document:: 
" The 12th Commission, after examining the Document of
economic and financial planning for the years 1999-2000...
FAVOURABLY STATES
provided that: 

1. adequate resources are supplied along with the above-mentioned objectives and the time to carry out the planning interventions is established; 
2. the national health care Fund's supply is adequate to the reappraisal of health expenditure connected with essential, effective and appropriate levels highlighted by the national health care plan". 

Delegated Decrees: Attempt on Freedom

In Italy the old physician's freedom to operate by science and consciousness is transforming in an obligation to operate only by specifically schemes of diagnoses and treatment, following standards already codified by operative Commissions under the control of Health Ministry, which physician has to hold on, if he doesn't want to fall into economical penalties that really bind him to follow strict rules from the State. 

In the world there are studies and scientific researches that involve many human and economical resources to detect new medicines, successively vanified by a  Commission that establishes which the pathological forms are, in which that medicine could be valid or not even though are pathological forms for which that medicine has been studied or considered valid in all the world, included Italy. 
However the Government has founded a new form to impose new Law's ties getting over even the Republic Parliament. 
The rearrangement of the National Health Service indeed has already been approved by the Chamber of Deputies, and is going to be in Senate (as anticipated in n.3/98 of Leadership Medica) through a legislative instrument called 'Delegation Law'. 
Such laws delegate to Health Ministry to legislate through decrees that do not need further apportions. 
Here is how a delegation to issue a decree that involves: 
“(art.2 paragraph 0) the modalities to get through areas, functions and objectives, to the exclusivity of work relation, as individual choice to be motivated by the additional economical treatment cited in art.1 paragraph 12 from the Law December the 23rd on 1996, n.662...” 
can transform itself, in delegated decree, in a real, absolute and total incompatibility to the exercise of the free profession for all the physicians of Public Service. 
Or a delegation to: 
“(art.2 paragraph g) control prescriptions' and prevention services' correctness, about diagnoses, treatment and riabilitation.” 
can change, in delegated decree, into liberticide rules that, through State protocols, in fact prevent, always with respect to an equal distribution of economical resources, from a correct exercise of the medical profession, which in a really free country would have shocked the summit of the medical deputation. 
Indeed in Italy it seems everything could be arranged without knowing that the conditionings to the medical profession are really a great attempt on freedom . 
 
 
 
 
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