Health care during the Covid19 crisis: the results of short-sighted economic policies that put public safety and human health at stake. 05/05/2020
European Trade Union Confederation, Brussels
ETUC - Brussels
2020
7 p.
epidemic disease ; health policy ; health expenditure ; trade union attitude ; ETUC ; welfare state ; trade union document
Social protection
https://www.etuc.org/en/document/covid19-impact-health-care-cuts
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"Economic and social policies to date have focused excessively on fiscal discipline rather than on public investment in health and care, this crisis clearly showing that this was to the detriment of the people in general. This fiscal discipline focused on austerity, cuts and privatisation; as a result, aging was seen as a cost on the country's budget and financing of the health sector dwindled. ETUC has been denouncing the weakness of the health care systems in Europe for many years.
ETUC strongly advocates that everyone, irrespective of age, is entitled to dignified living and health care. ETUC calls for a European approach that includes public investments, doubling the EU budget and issuing EU debt, in order to enhance EU forward-looking commitment for public and individual health."
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