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cord-350976-ks8g6agf	Prante, Franz J.	Decades of Tight Fiscal Policy Have Left the Health Care System in Italy Ill-Prepared to Fight the COVID-19 Outbreak	2020-06-07		.txt	text/plain	2304	143	71	The development of Italian health care expenditure is reported in Figure 2 together with data for selected European countries and the euro area average. In this period, public health care spending was similarly affected in Portugal and Spain and to a larger extent in Greece, i.e. the countries hardest hit by the euro crisis and the subsequent austerity policies. After a slightly expansive second phase from 2000 to 2010, in which spending per capita in Italy increased by 27.1%, the growth of public health expenditure registered a reduction in the third time interval (as was the case in Portugal, Greece and Spain). Altogether, from 1990 to 2018, public and compulsory health care expenditure per capita in Italy increased by less than 26.8%, which is by far the lowest value among the European countries reported in Figure 3 .	./cache/cord-350976-ks8g6agf.txt	./txt/cord-350976-ks8g6agf.txt