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Healthcare in Italy
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Italy's healthcare system is consistently ranked among the best in the world.[1][2] The Italian healthcare system employs a Beveridge model, and operates on the assumption that health care is a human right that should be provided to everyone regardless of their ability to pay.[3] Life expectancy is the 4th highest among OECD countries (83.4 years in 2018[4]) and the world's 8th highest according to the WHO (82.8 years in 2018[5]). Healthcare spending accounted for 9.7% of GDP in 2020.[6]
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The Italian state has run a universal public healthcare system since 1978.[7] The public part is the Servizio Sanitario Nazionale, which is organised under the Ministry of Health and administered on a devolved regional basis, in consequence of the 2001 Italian constitutional referendum.