Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-11-15-Speech-3-156"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-11-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Supplementary health insurance2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001115.6.3-156"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-11-15-Speech-3-1572
lpv:speaker	lp:Carlo Fatuzzo2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partito Pensionati (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (1999-10-06--2001-09-05)3
lpv:translated text	"I would like to thank Mr Rocard for his initiative. Mr President, as representative of the Pensioners' Party – which is as good as blamed for the longer life expectancy of citizens and pensioners and therefore for this health service crisis – how could I fail to say a few words on this occasion. I have to say, even, that I am rather taken over by the subject for, to my eyes, Mr President, you resemble a chief physician, with a white coat, stethoscope and hammer to test the patient's reflexes. We are discussing public and private health care. But if public health care is working so well, why is it that in Italy, for example – and the people were saying that health insurance schemes take away your health and leave you dissatisfied? Why did the great Italian actor, Alberto Sordi, have such success with a film about the Italian health service, entitled "The Family Doctor"? Why, in response to a question I put to him, did the great doctor, Christian Barnard, whom I had the good fortune to meet last week at a convention organised by Mr Nisticò, reply that when he performed the first heart transplant in South Africa it was in a private clinic? Why is it, as happened to me when I went to visit my dear mother – who is still alive, thank God – in a major public hospital in Rome, that we see people who are dying accommodated in the same wards as other patients who are happily eating their lunch or supper? Well then, this means that we need to reflect at great length upon the reasons why public health care is in such a state. In my opinion, it is because public health care is paid for before the patient is treated whereas private health care is paid for after and if the patient is treated. And so I and my pensioner friends call upon Commissioner Diamantopoulou to put on a doctor's white coat, to treat the European Union's poorly medical service and to make us better."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	""the voice of the people is the voice of God""1

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