The Pope returns to launch an appeal so that "there is always a free health system" and in countries that have it, "like Italy and other countries, do not lose it", "on the contrary it would only reach those who can pay", only they "will have the right to health".
Free and accessible health care "helps overcome inequalities".
The Pope said this when he received the assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life in audience.
In many situations, the elderly are considered "waste material because they are not useful but are the root of wisdom for our civilization", the Pope said, speaking of "hidden euthanasia, that of medicines: they are expensive and they give half of them and this means shorten the life of the elderly, with this we deny hope ".
This is "everyday waste, life is discarded, we are attentive to this culture of waste. It is not a problem of one law or another. It is the problem of waste", the Pope highlighted.
