Emancipatory projects regarding healthcare were put on the back burner by the Liberal postwar governments and later drowned by the Fascist austerity campaign. Aft er this setback, the universal national health system would not become a reality in Italy until 1978. And in the early 1990s, the resurgence of austerity again began chipping away at these government programs.

Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, loc. 312