Debt-Hit Greece 'Running Out Of Medication'

[Lars77]

http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16235055

Pharmacies in Greece were on strike earlier this week in protest at the government not paying them for medicines that should be free to customers.

Many pharmacies now have huge debts to pharmaceutical companies for drugs they have handed out free of charge.

Sky News spoke to one pharmacist who has not been paid by the state for over a year.

Evaggelina Rousi, who runs a chemist in Athens, said: "The government owes us 30,000 euros but we have not been paid by them for a year and a half.

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Destroy Greek universal healthcare: Check.


What's next?

[ProgressiveProfessor]

1. It is only going to get worse

IMF and others will make an example out of Greece so that others will not follow suit.

My guess is that eventually Greece will have little choice but to capitulate