Greek Clinics Refuse State Insurance Patients

ATHENS - Greece?s reeling health care system, already beset by big cuts during a crushing economic crisis, is in such dire straits that the country?s private clinics have stopped admitting patients with state health insurance and will withhold care until they are paid past debts. The Association of Greek Clinics said that the National Organization for Healthcare Provision (EOPYY)owes 800 million euros ($1.039 billion) to private healthcare facilities, adding that they are owed services rendered as far back as 2007 by the country's main healthcare provider. 'Our potential for survival has run out,' the association said in its statement.

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