(ANSA) – ROME, MAY 05 – “In order to provide an effective response to the demographic and social transformations affecting the country, it is to be hoped that an integrated welfare system will be able to exploit the advantages deriving from possible synergies on the one hand, between the different sectors of social security, assistance and health, and, on the other, between the private and public sectors “. This was underlined by the president of the Supervisory Commission on pension funds (Covip) Mario Padula, heard in the Bicameral on social security institutions, specifying that, in this scenario, “pension funds, in addition to constituting a model for supplementary health funds, could also be taken into consideration in order to expand their own functions in the direction of an integrated welfare: this possibly – he continues – also through the establishment of group structures, in which the social partners still maintain a central role in ensuring overall governance and coordination; structures however widespread in countries where pension funds have long been highly developed “, such as the Netherlands. According to the top of Covip, “despite the large number of health funds operating on the market, the sector of supplementary health funds is not yet adequately regulated, nor effectively supervised. In this context, it is necessary to have an adequate control system, aimed at supervising the sound and prudent management of health funds, to ensure appropriate standards of transparency and correctness of the behavior of the operators, as well as to identify and counter any evasive or incorrect conduct with respect to the purposes to be pursued; purposes that also justify the tax benefits attributed “, has concluded.
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Source: Ansa
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