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It's a straight forward case here:
The Greek bailout required strict austerity measures for that country's economy. The EU - and the IMF - required state spending cuts. So the Greek treasury could not fully pay chemists for the prescriptions they presented, as the money was running out.
Therefore, people entitled to free or discounted medicines often found the chemists unable to supply them with their medicines, as the chemists were not refunded by the state.
This is still ongoing there, and similarly, hospitals have also been known to run short on supplies.
Whether the EU authorities in Brussels were/are actually aware of this, or whether it was meant as part of their austerity measures, is unclear.
I'm not sure if Keith is aware of it, though.
And what happens if someone whose savings have been partially confiscated needed a medical operation that an austerity-stricken state cannot pay for, and would have to be carried out at private expense?
If the savings have been partially confiscated, even this could prove impossible.
And finally, many Greeks who became unemployed returned from the towns and cities to their villages of origin to help work their parents' land, as it has become an obvious way to at least have some food.
And this is not a dream world, but sheer reality, and it may come to us too.
