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Who pays for your holiday healthcare?
Who pays for your holiday healthcare?
by Espanabums » Mon Oct 03, 2022 12:23 pm
I have just automatically been sent a UK funded EHIC as I became the recipient of a UK old age pension.
During a recent discussion between friends I discovered that not everyone is eligible for an EHIC. If you are not eligible for a UK EHIC I suppose you must rely on travel insurance to pay your medical bills whilst on holiday.
You can only get a Spanish EHIC (TSE Tarjeta Sanitarìa Europa) if you have worked and paid National Insurance contributions in Spain.
If you are a Spanish resident and a UK National and did not become a Spanish resident before the Brexit transition period expired, you are not entitled to free UK healthcare when you holiday in UK, you must rely on holiday insurance.
Once, as a Spanish resident and UK Citizen, you start to receive a UK old age pension, you can get an S1 and UK will pay for your permanent healthcare in Spain and also issue you with an EHIC to cover you holiday healthcare elsewhere in Europe.
Here is a link to the UK government site and the relevant passage quoted
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/healthcare- ... yCs8PzcOyA
If you are a UK national and move to the EU, you should not expect to be able to use NHS services for free when visiting the UK unless you have an EHIC, PRC or S2 to show your healthcare costs are funded by the EU country in which you now live, or another exemption applies.
Some former UK residents do not have to pay for NHS treatment when visiting England. This includes:
During a recent discussion between friends I discovered that not everyone is eligible for an EHIC. If you are not eligible for a UK EHIC I suppose you must rely on travel insurance to pay your medical bills whilst on holiday.
You can only get a Spanish EHIC (TSE Tarjeta Sanitarìa Europa) if you have worked and paid National Insurance contributions in Spain.
If you are a Spanish resident and a UK National and did not become a Spanish resident before the Brexit transition period expired, you are not entitled to free UK healthcare when you holiday in UK, you must rely on holiday insurance.
Once, as a Spanish resident and UK Citizen, you start to receive a UK old age pension, you can get an S1 and UK will pay for your permanent healthcare in Spain and also issue you with an EHIC to cover you holiday healthcare elsewhere in Europe.
Here is a link to the UK government site and the relevant passage quoted
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/healthcare- ... yCs8PzcOyA
Getting treatment in the UK
Because the NHS is a residency-based system, under NHS rules UK nationals who move abroad on a permanent basis may lose their entitlement to free NHS healthcare.If you are a UK national and move to the EU, you should not expect to be able to use NHS services for free when visiting the UK unless you have an EHIC, PRC or S2 to show your healthcare costs are funded by the EU country in which you now live, or another exemption applies.
Some former UK residents do not have to pay for NHS treatment when visiting England. This includes:
- UK war pensioners
- UK government employees
- UK nationals living in the EU on or before 31 December 2020, once they have a registered, UK-issued S1
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Re: Who pays for your holiday healthcare?
by telmel » Mon Oct 03, 2022 1:20 pm
We could all lose our health care in spain if the government get their way and do away with the NHS , i have seen more people supporting this in articles in the newspapers lately, this is how brexit started ,tacticly placed rumours
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Re: Who pays for your holiday healthcare?
by Redwoodsman » Mon Oct 03, 2022 4:18 pm
“ if the government get their way and do away with the NHS , I have seen more people supporting this in articles in the newspapers
Interesting, but far too Machiavellian
I believe that this is a reference to articles about the concept of introducing an insurance based system that would be similar to the ones in Germany and other countries.
Many people (including me) believe that the current, ageing, UK population make the NHS (in its currently funded form) unlikely to survive or improve.
That is probably true, whatever any future government may be politically motivated towards ideologically.
My family & I have benefited benefited from the NHS over many years. I wish the NHS well, but - (as currently funded) - it will, I believe inevitably, fall behind better funded systems.
Articles that merely explore the best method of achieving improvement are simply that - explorations of ideas.
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Re: Who pays for your holiday healthcare?
by Ov3rdal3 » Tue Oct 04, 2022 10:43 am
Corrupt UK Government are siphoning funds away from UK Healthcare to make it underperform and use it as an excuse to introduce an insurance based health care funding. Many parts of the NHS are already privatised.
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Re: Who pays for your holiday healthcare?
by marcliff » Tue Oct 04, 2022 11:58 am
Where's that conspiracy thread when you really need it?
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Re: Who pays for your holiday healthcare?
by Espanabums » Tue Oct 04, 2022 12:25 pm
marcliff wrote:Where's that conspiracy thread when you really need it?
Quite, marcliff, I post a thread hoping to inform people about holiday healthcare and it takes off in another direction. Don't you just love fora?
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Re: Who pays for your holiday healthcare?
by jpeg » Tue Oct 04, 2022 1:17 pm
Ov3rdal3 wrote:Corrupt UK Government are siphoning funds away from UK Healthcare to make it underperform and use it as an excuse to introduce an insurance based health care funding. Many parts of the NHS are already privatised.
Please let us have details of all the parts that have been privatised
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Re: Who pays for your holiday healthcare?
by mondo » Tue Oct 04, 2022 3:34 pm
Labour have been saying that the Tories are privatising the NHS for 50 years...
It is still there.. and will be for another 50 years.
IMHO.
It is still there.. and will be for another 50 years.
IMHO.
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