As part of CNE's regular series of health lunches, we present a discussion of the Italian health system by CNE's Senior Fellow, Alberto Mingardi.

The talk will outline how the system works and discuss the main problems - as well as its strengths. It will offer suggestions for reform, and will draw wider lessons for the rest of Europe to learn from Italy.

Alberto Mingardi is Managing Director of the Istituto Bruno Leoni, the Italian free-market think tank, and a Senior Fellow with CNE. He sits on the Scientific Board of the Fondazione Liberal, and on the editorial board of the magazine Critica sociale.

In 2002, he was a Calihan Fellow at the Acton Institute for Study of Religion and Liberty. He is the translator into English of Antonio Rosmini Serbati's masterpiece The Constitution Under Social Justice. He has contributed to a wide range of publications, in Italian as well as in English, including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Economic Affairs, Markets and Morality.