Austerity kills

"Austerity was designed to shrink debts. Now, three years after Europe's budget-cutting began, the evidence is in: severe, indiscriminate austerity is not part of the solution, but part of the problem -- and its human costs are devastating."

Europe's public health disaster: How austerity kills

By David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu

September 9, 2013 | CNN

URL: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/09/business/europes-public-health-disaster-how-austerity-kills/index.html?hpt=hp_c4