ATHENS — President Obama’s health-care plan is, in fits and starts, attempting to extend coverage to millions of uninsured Americans. But here at the epicenter of Europe’s economic crisis, Nikos Solomos is the face of a continent where debt-laden nations are drifting away from a privileged era in public health.
Like most Greeks, Solomos, 60, and his wife, Amalia, 52, paid into a state insurance fund for years, granting them access to medical care for little or no cost. After their pickle business went bankrupt, they could not afford their premiums and descended into the cascading ranks of the uninsured. Fueled by massive unemployment, a five-year recession and deep budget cuts, the number of uninsured has soared from less than 500,000 in 2008 to at least 2.3 million — or almost one in five Greeks — today....[...] washingtonpost.com
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