The 2007 Italian national budget law outlines a new framework for the country’s regional healthcare administrations. The law’s purpose is to force each region with a large deficit in its healthcare funding to formulate and implement a recovery plan. “The national budget for 2007 represents a positive step forward in finalizing a set of rules for Italian healthcare,” says Simone Zampa, senior analyst at Moody’s. “It aims to make regions more responsible and more accountable.”
Earlier this year, Eurostat’s ruling that healthcare securitizations would be treated as on-balance-sheet debt robbed many Italian regions of their main healthcare funding source.
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