20 Oct 2016 10:30 PM:
Why is there so much ignorance about the facts of the UK/ES National Health systems??
1/. If a Brit resides in Spain for less than one half of a year, and that Brit is not a resident of Spain, then if that Brit becomes in need of medical care in Spain, then that Brit can have that medical care by using the UK EHIC card. The UK then pays, to Spain, what the care cost(s) came to!
2/. If a Brit resides in Spain for more than half a year, that Brit is regarded, now, as being fully resident in Spain and has to pay income tax on all (all) income, together with all other taxes normally required of any (including Spanish) resident!! Funding for the Spanish Nat. Health system, is paid for from the, already mentioned, Spanish taxes - the UK does not pay anything towards those costs!!
3/. If, and it seems more than highly probable, the UK cannot benefit from being in the EU trading club (not probable because it, the UK, will not accept free movement of all and any citizen of the EU), then any UK citizen resident in Spain (and, even, paying income tax there), will not receive Spanish National Health care if they have not, at the time of the UK actually leaving the EU, been resident for more than 5 years. There will be no UK EHIC card available as that is purely a EU function, so any UK/ES individual will not be medically covered unless by, very expensive, private medical insurance!! Just consider this - if any EU citizen (especially of advance years) were to holiday/visit outside of the EU zone, they would need to take out private insuance (OK, if a Brit or Dutch citizen visits Australia, they are medically covered for 6months). I am going to visit relatives in the USA this month - the medical insurance for 31 days is 750€ !! Just think what it will cost for any Brit visiting the EU when the UK is out!!
Of course, all of this applies to any Brit living/visiting any of the (remaining) 27 EU countries.
The UK is set on a course for the damned. Listening to Norman Lamont last night, typifies the unbelievable arrogance of the true BREXIT fanatic - the, not implied but positive, statements of the ´The EU needs the UK more than the UK needs the EU´, is utter chauvenism in the extreme. If I were not a Brit, but a citizen of the EU, I would be saying ´Such a nation is dangerous and should be allowed to commit suicide without intervention so as to do no more harm!!
Goodbye
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