What happened to healthcare in Finland in 1991? Very few European economies have gone through the sort of deep recession which has now engulfed so much of southern Europe. Finland is the exception - after the collapse of communism it lost its position as middleman between East and West and saw GDP fall 13% between 1991 and 1994. What happened to healthcare services tells us a lot about what may happen now in countries from Ireland to Greece. We talk to academic and policy maker Prof Juhani Lehto about the impact.