Italy moves to extend free healthcare to homeless people

https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/italy-healthcare-bill-homeless-people.html

by Massimo25ore

16 comments

  1. USA: cities can fine homeless people for living on the streets

    italy:

  2. I am surprised it didn’t include them before.

  3. Honestly kinda weird it took this long. Afaik, almost all countries in Europe cover the homeless.

  4. > **Until now Italy’s homeless can only receive emergency medical assistance**, without access to regular healthcare services from the state, because they do not have a registered residence.

    > Without a residence it is currently impossible to register with a general practitioner, book a medical visit or receive other preventive medical treatment.

    > This leaves homeless people in limbo, relying on the help of charities and non-profit organisations which offer free medicine or visits in mobile health clinics.

    This sounds so… stupid? Considering that homeless people are more exposed to all sorts of viruses and bacteria compared to someone glued to their screen 8h a day.

  5. Generally a good idea. Costs way less to offer free basic healthcare to your poor than it does to treat outbreaks that spread amongst them and didnt get caught for a long time cause none of them saw a doctor

  6. Wait, this proposal is coming from this government? WTF?

  7. I’m surprised it wasn’t the case before. Good for them !

    In France it was also opened to the migrants, but the neo-Petainists wants to remove it now.

    Which may sound logical to you, but 1) the migrants contribute more to the system than they draw from it, and 2) you don’t want someone to catch nasty stuff, be left out from healthcare, then spreading the nasty stuff. That’s how cholera and tuberculosis outbreaks happen, and it will cost more to everyone down the line.

  9. Japan has been doing that since 2002… I was there when they enacted that new law that allows homeless people to receive health care without an address, and now Japan is one of the countries with the least homeless people.
    I hope it works for Italy too.

  10. Oh look, it took a so-called “far-right” government to fix it.

  11. They told me that far right gouvernement was against the poor

  12. There was a “cheat” in the previous system, a lot of town offer a fake residence street to homeless to circumvent this legal stop block, they fixed a stupid situation but there was a way before this.

  13. Americans reading this thread are like WTF?! Bet they cant have guns though!!

  14. Bullshits.. we cure everyone, even the migrants.. the “residence” thing just isn’t true.
    If you are wounded nobody is going to ask where is your residence.

  15. Thanks to this and migrant the SSN is gettin worse and worse every year in Italy. They do everything to give you the less medicine, exam, visits possible. You need to wait months for an exam, unless you pay in private and get it done in 2 days. Unfornately Italy is going bankrupt. I want free healthcare for everyone but we don’t have money.

  16. Greece cut mine right after university completion . Because being their citizen does not mean right to healthcare and medicine unconditionally. I live in a different country of Europe now and I am shocked by the disparity of healthcare coverage among EU member states…

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