Greeks' Hope For "Change" Backfires

America...Twenty Five Years From Now?


I was cruising along the Internet this morning catching up on the news when this story titled: "Greek Health System Opts for Amputation as Money-Saver"  caught my eye.

Here's the whole text for your enjoyment:

This Saturday, one of Greece’s most respected newspapers, To Vima, reported that the nation’s largest government health insurance provider would no longer pay for special footwear for diabetes patients. Amputation is cheaper, says the Benefits Division of the state insurance provider.

The new policy was announced in a letter to the Pan-Hellenic Federation of People with Diabetes. The Federation disputes the science behind the decision of the Benefits Division. In a statement, the group argues that the decision is contrary to evidence as presented in the international scientific literature.

Greece’s National Healthcare System was created in the early 1980s, during the tenure of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou. Papandreou, an academic, won election under the slogan, Αλλαγή, which is the Greek word for Change.

I don't think I need to add anything else...except possibly that here in the Good Old US of A we should start paying to have the heads amputated off some of the politicians and voters that got us all into this mess in the first place.

Know what I mean?