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|   Daniele Focosi
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'''[https://www.topitalianscientists.org/tis/52980/Daniele_Focosi_-_Top_Italian_Scientist_in_Biomedical_Sciences Daniele Focosi]'''

Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, Italy

''Correspondence to'':  Daniele Focosi, daniele.focosi@gmail.com


==Abstract==
Gerontocracy, the centralization of political power in elderlies, is often a consequence of demographic crises. In particular gerontocracy paves to way to self-perpetuating cronyism, which represents a relevant hurdle against progress in societies. Unfortunately, gerontocratic societies are also prone to suffer from cronyistic health systems. In this manuscript, I dissect evidences supporting the cronyistic state of the Italian health system, their causes oand their dismal consequences on both immediate services to the citizenship and long-term sustainability of the system itself. I finally advocate an urgent reform of selective criteria that focus on objective meritocracy and the introduction of robust term limits.

==Declarations==
=== Conflict of Interest ===
The Author declares that there is no conflict of interest.

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