What buying options will a NO vote bring?

colsten

I hiked for 2 weeks through Cuba back end of last year. Santiago and Havana have horrendous quarters, like any larger conurbation has, and they also have less bad areas. Almost nothing is modern. But the total poverty away from the cities is the one thing I will never forget. People just live in huts, there is no running water or electricity, they sleep on the floor and their eyes are empty of any hope.

I am not saying that there aren't worse places in the world because I know there are. Nonethess, for Greece to come down from where they are now to Cuban standards strikes me as nothing less than a disaster.

kidmugsy

keiran wrote: »

Cuba has one of the best healthcare systems in the world

And we know that because we know we can always trust statistics issued by a communist government.

keiran

From Wikipedia(with sources,presumably, in the references)

Cuba is ranked very high for human development by the United Nations, and high for health and education.[19][20][21] In 2015, it became the first country to eradicate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis, a milestone hailed by the WHO as an "one of the greatest public health achievements possible."[22]

Don't know quite how this thread on what investments opportunities came with a "no" vote turned into an analysis of Cuba, but ho hum....

TheTracker

The WHO last ranked world healthcare in 2000. Of 190 countries the UK ranked 18th, USA 37th, Cuba 39th.

In my experience of extensive travel healthcare is more closely related to the culture of a country than its finances. I've witnessed wonderful care in some desperately poor countries. To bring it back to topic, I am equally sure that Greece will be just fine and it will prosper in many non-financial ways no matter what happens in the financial sense. You know, just like Germany did since 1945 including the halving of their debt to creditors under the Marshall Plan.

Voyager2002

For some extremely well-informed analysis, see this link:
http://www.thenation.com/article/austerity-has-failed-an-open-letter-from-thomas-piketty-to-angela-merkel/

Archi_Bald

Voyager2002 wrote: »

For some extremely well-informed analysis, see this link:
http://www.thenation.com/article/austerity-has-failed-an-open-letter-from-thomas-piketty-to-angela-merkel/

Piketty is totally driven by a profound and irrational hatred of Germany.

I have a lot more time for this article by George Magnus: http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/how-greece-became-europes-fault-line-greek-refrendum