About six months ago...I was reading through Greek medical problems within the economy. If you were on insulin and tried to pick up your monthly supply...most pharmacy groups couldn’t get the stuff via their normal channels, with Greek health care paying. So you...the customer who desperately needed insulin...had to go down put down around $100 to get the stuff ordered from France. It’d be delivered five days later, and you were ok....except whatever was free via the gov’t health care program...was no longer free, and you had to find a $100 somewhere in your limited budget to pay for what was free before.
My feeling is that of eleven million people in Greece...by next summer, at least 500k will have packed up and left the country. I also think that most banks will end up closing shop or consolidating. The tourism trade? For 2012, I’d predict half the tourism trade that you’d typically expect in Greece, and it likely continues through 2013. They really took the country and made it into some Banana republic.
There was an article yesterday saying that tourism is down a lot, primarily from people cancelling trips because of fear of unrest.
The article also said that if they scrapped the euro and reinstated the drachma, tourism would boom because tourists would get a lot more bang for their buck. But Greece has to show that it is a safe place in which travel.
...and seeing into the future, if you are not among the “chosen” when the Affordible Care “Act” becomes fully implemented, the bother of providing you (me) with the drugs to treat our diabetes is above and beyond what the State is willing to provide. So we die. Which is the plan...
...and seeing into the future, if you are not among the “chosen” when the Affordable Care “Act” becomes fully implemented, the bother of providing you (me) with the drugs to treat our diabetes is above and beyond what the State is willing to provide. So we die. Which is the plan...