Re:Europe's Record Youth Unemployment
by flexie on Saturday June 01, 2013 @01:46AM
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Yes, it's hard to maintain free healthcare and free education like in Northern or Western Europo when Greeks pay little or no tax.
As I understand it unemployed Greeks receive free health care for up to one year. After that period, patients must pay for their own treatment. That's still more than many places in the US.
The fact that public education is (often?) so bad that private tutor schools are needed to enter university doesn't change the fact that education is mostly free in Greece.
Re:Europe's Record Youth Unemployment
by pyriku on Saturday June 01, 2013 @05:00AM
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Excuse me, but the welfare systems are public, not free. We pay for them with our taxes. At least in Spain, education and health system are public, not free.
As I understand it unemployed Greeks receive free health care for up to one year. After that period, patients must pay for their own treatment. That's still more than many places in the US.
The fact that public education is (often?) so bad that private tutor schools are needed to enter university doesn't change the fact that education is mostly free in Greece.