The Pensions Reform arrives in the House, between news and expectations
There council night comes alive on the ratification of the Delegated Decree on Enhancement and Evaluation of ISS Managers: certainly the spotlight is on the critical issues of San Marino health, starting from the waiting times for ordinary visits, much longer than what is reported on the Institute’s website, a problem raised by the PDCS group leader Francesco Mussoni and taken up by the directors of Libera and RF, with Guerrino Zanotti which indicates waits three times longer than the Vasta Emilia Romagna area. The opposition agrees on the evaluation of health professionals, indeed, the judgment on objectives and capacities is welcome – he says Miriam Farinelli – but with clear, objective and transparent parameters. And to respond to the much-invoked meritocracy, “without interference from politics”. In fact, it is perplexing that it is the government to appoint the evaluation team. Also in the sights the Director General called – he says Matteo Ciacci – for a new hospital about which nothing is known. Hence the question: “What did Bevere come to do in San Marino? We continue with managers and consultants from the forum who do not care about our hospital ”.
The reservations of the PDCS on a Decree whose contents have not been the subject of adequate comparison, raises in the opposition the political question of relations in the majority, with Nicola Renzi that photographs a situation in which Rete and DC try to swallow the bitter morsels that the other puts on the plate. “Stop for a moment as you ask from Mussoni”, saying no debt crisis out of fear of an issue or out of spite on debt. “The decree – he remembers Emanuele Santi – was filed a month ago. Those who wanted amendments had plenty of time to do so ”. The Secretary of Health explains that evaluation units are present in all hospitals and the fact that its members are external guarantees that they are independent. The evaluation of doctors is already foreseen – he clarifies – the Decree implements it. The demand for waiting lists is also part of the budget objectives and is already being assessed to reduce them. “I want to evaluate the managers – he says – there is someone who does not want”. Then, to the ally: “If there is someone who wants to defend their members, they are not in step with history”. Mussoni reassures: “We will support the measure because we support the government”. The Decree is then ratified. Then, the paragraph on the social security law opens.
In introducing the Reform, Ciavatta speaks of a “worrying picture”. The trend of pension funds records progressive annual imbalances: they went from 173 million outgoings in 2017 to 205 in 2021, with an average annual increase of 9 million. At the same time, there is a flattening of contribution revenues, on which the law intervenes. Between decontributions provided for by law and non-payments, approximately 7 million euros are lost annually in the pension fund. The proposed reform progressively raises the rates to 24.5% for subordinate workers and to 24% for the self-employed; increases seniority from 100 to 103; adjust the retirement age for seniority to 66 years with pension calculation no longer over 20 but over 30 years. It is the reform of the reforms, but Ciacci di Libera considers it “short-term”, “a palliative”, “an intervention that moves the criticalities of the system forward, buying time”, “We could dare more”, he says. echo Zanotti. Francesco Mussoni instead it speaks of gradualness not as an act of choice but as a strategic choice, to allow the sustainability of the intervention, without weighing too much on companies and families in a difficult moment in the life of the country. A front of the large deficit between income and expenditure, Mirko Dolcini by Domani Motus Liberi invites politics to focus on economic development and GDP growth. “Thinking of solving the problem only with a Social Security Reform when the country’s income decreases, is like trying to keep water in a container with holes, trying to plug the holes”. There are those, come Fernando Bindi, criticizes the method: “We needed the IGR Reform, because that’s where everything else comes from”. Concordia Maria Luisa Berti, which also calls for a rigorous income control policy, absent even in the latest IGR reform despite constant appeals. If the majority applauds the courage and defines the reform as a good starting point, for Andrea Zafferani “It’s like a sip of water for a severely thirsty person”. It records the 66 million deficit in 2022, of which 50 million on the employee fund alone. “In 5 years, an 80% increase in the overall deficit, despite the significant growth of workers”. It is a Reformation – it attacks Giuseppe Morganti – which does not even intervene on the problems of equity. Inconceivable dice – that there are superlative pensions and other than subsistence levels ”. Alberto Spagni Reffi, while sharing the need for corrections, he explains how important it was to adopt a reform that was not overwhelming for citizens. “Making a definitive law with those numbers today – he warns – would mean retiring at 75 with 500 euros a month. It is not sustainable ”.