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Italy's head of state is being elected next week, amid a flood of attention of the candidacy of infamously misogynous former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Having a woman in the presidency, argues Italian writer and intellectual Dacia Maraini, may finally help steer the country in a better direction.
Whereas public health spending has grown slowly over the years, private spending has grown faster. New data shows that costs to families are rising without regulation.