Italian universal health care was deferred until 1978 then eroded by 1990s austerity

Evidence

Emancipatory projects regarding healthcare were put on the back burner by the Liberal postwar governments and later drowned by the Fascist austerity campaign. Aft er this setback, the universal national health system would not become a reality in Italy until 1978. And in the early 1990s, the resurgence of austerity again began chipping away at these government programs. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 312

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Direct chain across a century: Fascist austerity killed Italy’s healthcare hopes in the 1920s, and austerity’s 1990s resurgence attacked what finally arrived in 1978. Core evidence for austerity as a recurring class weapon.
• SEED: Angle: the long century of Italy’s health care — a policy killed twice by the same weapon, separated by fifty years.

Related

• Postwar austerity in Italy delayed universal healthcare until 1978 (similarity 0.93)
• Postwar austerity strangled Britain’s universal national health care project (similarity 0.82)