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Excellent analogy. And to extend it briefly, one of the issues with the Hotel Euro-zone is that it has not provided the support Greece needs to strengthen it's real economy. Instead, the Hotel management has simply demanded more fiscal (tax) and monetary (borrowing/spending) reforms. Recent "promises to reform" say very little about the real economy, and how real people are going to be helped to try to built a better future.

Historically, troubled countries have been given international support - through free-trade zones with wealthier importing/exporting countries, for example. The problem is that helping the Greeks will lead to demands for similar help from Italy, Spain, Portugal etc. etc.

So real economics is largely off the agenda, and the attention is focused on supporting the non-Greek holders of Greek debt, and protecting the Euro-project.

If Greece had checked into a hospital rather than a hotel, the management would have been more motivated to treat the patient and encourage the patient leave (or at least have more freedom) to live a healthy life. Hotels prefer long occupancy, and as you say, their cure is excess.

Right now, such is the mess on all sides (economically, morally and philosophically - if one believes in free-market economics), then a hospice seems more appropriate. A place where terminally ill people go to die. However, Greece shouldn't be treated as a terminally ill patient. It's a proud nation....The whole situation is a disgrace to many of those responsible/yet not accountable, as is the lack of a open-minded, informed debate about the pros and cons of a Grexit.