Annabel Grossman
THE European Commission is launching legal action against Spain after increasing complaints that some hospitals refuse to recognise the European Health Insurance Card.
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If you’ve got medical insurance use it and help the system out, if you don’t want to use why waste money buying it
Just a thought.
“It is thought that more than 10 million UK tourists visit Spain every year and about 30 will require medical treatment each week, which can put a strain on Spanish hospitals.”
The treatment doesn’t cost the Spanish health authorities a Euro Cent as they are reimbursed by the patients home country. The Spanish government would soon kick up a stink if Spanish nationals were refused emergency treatment when visiting other EU countries.
Exactly Peter. Further to the suggestion from Des. That would be turkeys voting for Christmas. Every claim made on any insurance, cranks up the price of premiums. In other words, it costs US, not the insurance companies, when overblown claims are made against them.
Remember the statistics recently released. Spain spent a measly 2m euros on British patients on Spain for health treatment, whereas The UK spent over 150m on Spanish patients in the UK. And Spain has the gall to moan about British health tourists.