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The implementation of a healthcare system in Greece dates back to the period of Otto's rule. Then some first bases for that started to be laid. The period until the mid-1920s was marked by efforts that had to overcome the obstacles of scarcity of resources for these reforms but also due to the continued involvement of the country in various military wars and situations that brought the country to great difficulties. . The period that began with the country's economic restructuring, after a decade of wars and civil strife (1940-1950), began the first serious, albeit incomplete, efforts at serious health reform. rooted in a context expressing the philosophy of the then government and creating a comprehensive Health Care Program. This framework, in addition to all the other institutions that it brought to the economic and social life of the Greeks, included an important parameter concerning integrated health care as an exclusive right of the state. Subsequent developments have changed this direction.