Greece needs different choices, better priorities

Millions of euros have been found to subsidize a small part of households' grocery shopping but not, apparently, to prop up beleaguered public hospitals, argues the writer. [InTime News]

Before we even get to the subject of shortages of economic resources for socio-economic development, there is another, more serious issue that plagues Greece: It is a problem of priorities and choices, of how we use the limited resources we do have.

This is more than evident when looking at specific areas. Take, for example, the "frugal" management of funds for the National Health System compared to the abundance of money spent on pre-election handouts. At public children's hospitals there is a waiting list of months or even years for a patient to get an operation. All this, at a time when all of the country's hospitals are unbearably strained by the influx of patients infected with a range of respiratory viruses, which should have been handled by health centers, but are not. Why? Because the system does not have enough doctors.

The shortage of doctors basically boils...

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