ABSTRACT
Greece, a country of 10 million population, in the southeast corner of Europe has been following, with a short delay, the same developments in health care as elsewhere in continental Europe. More specifically, health care in Greece is closely related to the Bismarckian social insurance model that characterizes most of the countries of the European Union such as Germany, France, Belgium, Netherlands, etc. Although the social insurance system of Greece has its origin in the late nineteenth century, it had been fully established in legislation from the end of the 1950s, when pension and health insurance became obligatory for every working person and his/her family.
