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Emanuele Martinelli

Columnist

Young Voices Europe

Emanuele Martinelli is a columnist with Young Voices Europe and an Italian PhD student at the University of Zurich. He works on the limits and modalities of applications of AI technology in economic planning and works as a proofreader and translator in the academic and literary sectors. Emanuele also works with Students For Liberty and Liberales Institut, a Swiss think tank.

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Lessons from Covid about healthcare and sin taxes

November 4, 2022
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Healthcare

Europe is often praised for its public healthcare systems. Under these kinds of systems, the government assumes the cost of providing healthcare for the population by pooling taxpayer money. But the Covid emergency propelled into the public debate important flaws in this type of healthcare system, especially the fact that everyone pays into the system based on their income, but not their risk of actually needing to use it or how much they could cost it. For example, an elderly smoker who suffers from genetically-transferred diseases and clinical obesity could pay the same amount into their healthcare