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Greek Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis on Monday referred to the generic medicine vs the patent drug option available to patients under public health insurance coverage and to the increased contribution they will have to pay if they choose the...

The Troika of Greece's international lenders, the European Union-International Monetary Fund-European Central Bank have decided to give the right to EOPYY patients of freely visiting specializing doctors with EOPPY coverage. The EOPPY doctors opposed the decision and said it...

Two years after EOPYY’s start up, the Ministry of Health is looking carefully at how it can remain viable. There are three dominant scenarios, the first of which involves transferring 6,000 employees to the National Healthcare System’s Health Centers...

The astronomical number of 6,000,000 uninsured citizens, who along with their families have no access to medical care, evokes feelings of shock and awe. In the time of the Memorandum, unemployment has taken explosive proportions and has condemned millions of...

Greece's National Healthcare Organisation EOPYY is paying out scores of millions of euros for prescription drugs instead of generics and Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis wants to see if they are collaborating with drug companies. Among the most extreme cases are: -A...

With expected tax revenues far off expectations because of the effect of austerity measures, Greek taxpayers are being pushed to come up with 7 billion euros ($9.13 billion) in tax payments due this year at the same time the...

Dismissing burgeoning black holes in the economy because of setbacks in privatization and debt in the state health insurer EOPYY that could add up to more than two billion euros ($2.6 billion) Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras said his...

With Greece keeping its ignominious position as the most corrupt country in the European Union, the country's crushing economic crisis is making the problem worse, according to a report by the Public Administration Inspector General Leandros Rakintzis. His report, which...

Despite mixed messages about the economy - it's up, it's down, it's recovering, it's on the rocks - Greece is trying to promote that all will be well but the European Union isn't so sure. A European Commission report about...

Greece's health care insurance system EOPYY, which has a 1.2 billion euro ($1.54 billion) debt, is running amok with mismanagement, Public Administration Inspector Leandros Rakintzis, tasked with rooting out corruption and mismanagement, said, adding it's barely a legal operation. Rakintzis...