Luigi Mariotti (23 November 1912 in

Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany Regions of Italy, region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilan ...

– 27 December 2004 in

) was an Italian politician.

Biography

Mariotti was a member of the

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, with a reformist socialist tendency. He was Senator from 1953 to 1968 ( Legislature II, III and IV), then he sat in the Chamber of Deputies from 1968 to 1979 ( Legislature V, VI and VII). He served as Minister of health four times, clashing with the

Italian Liberal Party The Italian Liberal Party ( it, Partito Liberale Italiano, PLI) was a liberal and conservative political party in Italy. The PLI, which is the heir of the liberal currents of both the Historical Right and the Historical Left, was a minor part ...

and part of the Christian Democracy, opposed or doubting about a universalistic approach to welfare, dear to the Socialist Party of those years and to Mariotti himself. He was the forerunner of the establishment of the National Health Service, which then took place in 1978, as a result of the battles that he promoted from the end of the '60s, within the centre-left governments. In 1968 he promoted the so-called ''Mariotti law'' (law 12 February 1968, no. 132), containing provisions on hospitals and hospital assistance, with which the hospital sector was profoundly reformed through the transformation of hospitals into public bodies distinct from assistance agencies.La rivoluzione del servizio sanitario nazionale
/ref> He also served as Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation in the first Rumor government.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mariotti, Luigi 1912 births 2004 deaths Politicians from Florence Italian Socialist Party politicians Italian Ministers of Health Senators of Legislature II of Italy Senators of Legislature III of Italy Senators of Legislature IV of Italy Deputies of Legislature V of Italy Deputies of Legislature VI of Italy Deputies of Legislature VII of Italy