Our healthcare protection model has undergone profound changes. The organizational models dating back to the late 19th century or the post-war period now appear significantly outdated—not so much in their intent to ensure a welfare system that allows citizens to meet their needs, but in their ability to respond to the challenge of incremental (and increasingly rapid) innovation and post-acute survival.

Trapped in an ideological narrative that focuses more on problems (are they really problems?) rather than solutions or best practices, we risk continuously repeating slogans to appease broad segments of the population. However, these citizens should instead be educated to use healthcare resources responsibly and to understand, in a comparative manner, the value of a universalistic system that remains exceptionally strong, especially where it is most needed. Encouraging the measurement of outcomes, medium-to-long-term analyses, people health management projects, and data-driven policies should be the key to preserving this invaluable social and economic asset—considering that, in every respect, health is wealth.

All of this must be achieved by moving beyond the perspective that views the private sector—whether private activities within a private facility, private activities within a public facility, or private ownership of a facility providing public services—as a problem or an absolute evil, rather than as a great opportunity for subsidiarity, sustainability, and national economic system development.