Greece: #27 in the 2022 World Index of Healthcare Innovation
<h2>Introduction</h2>
<p>Greece ranked 27th in the 2022 World Index of Healthcare Innovation, compared to <a href="https://freopp.org/greece-freopp-world-index-of-healthcare-innovation-1c86a4d716f2" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">26th in 2021</a> and <a href="https://freopp.org/greece-health-system-profile-27-in-the-world-index-of-healthcare-innovation-6a125d1343c3" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">27th in 2020</a>. Greece struggled across multiple dimensions, ranking 28th in Quality for a second year. Greece also struggled with Fiscal Sustainability, ranking 24th overall, primarily due to its high debt-to-GDP ratio of over 211 percent. Greece’s strongest dimension was Choice (11th).</p>
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<h2>Background</h2>
<p>Western medicine as we know it traces much of its foundation to the contributions of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Hippocrates</a>, who was born on the Greek island of Kos around 460 B.C.</p>
<p>For much of the 20th century, Greece offered a robust private health insurance market similar to that of <a href="https://freopp.org/germany-4-in-the-2022-world-index-of-healthcare-innovation-5e88719955b1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Germany</a> and other former Bismarckian countries, with a diversified range of premiums, benefits, and cost-sharing provisions for patients. However, in 2011, after a protracted fiscal and economic crisis, Greece moved away from this largely private insurance network to a single-payer system administered by the National Organization for Healthcare Provision (EOPYY).</p>
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