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The European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) is issued free of charge to anyone who is insured by or covered by a statutory social security scheme of the EEA countries or Switzerland and certain citizens and residents of the United Kingdom. It allows holders to receive medical treatment in another member state in the same way as residents of that ...
Healthcare in Europe. European Health Insurance Card (French version pictured) Healthcare in Europe is provided through a wide range of different systems run at individual national levels. Most European countries have a system of tightly regulated, competing private health insurance companies, with government subsidies available for citizens ...
The UK Global Health Insurance Card (GHIC) is a card issued by the NHS Business Services Authority on behalf of the Department for Health and Social Care in the United Kingdom. It is issued free of charge to anyone covered by the social security system of the United Kingdom and provides evidence of entitlement to the provision of healthcare ...
Healthcare in Austria is universal for residents of Austria as well as those from other EU countries. [2] Students from an EU/EEA country or Switzerland with national health insurance in their home country can use the European Health Insurance Card. [3] Self-insured students have to pay an insurance fee of EUR 52.68 per month. [3]
The government may provide universal health insurance in the form of a social insurance plan that is affordable by all citizens, such as in the case of Germany and Taiwan, although private insurance may provide supplemental coverage to the public health plan. In twenty-five European countries, universal health care entails a government ...
The Carte Vitale is the health insurance card of the national health care system in France. It was introduced in 1998 to allow a direct settlement with the medical arm of the social insurance system. The declaration of a primary health insurance company (Caisse primaire d'assurance maladie) substitutes the card usage.
To be entitled to a European health insurance card, the primary condition is that one is a member of the Norwegian National Insurance scheme, and that the person is a Norwegian citizen or a citizen of another EU/EEA country or Switzerland. The European health insurance card is a plastic card the size of a regular bank card. The scheme also ...
A health insurance card issued in Sicily as a smart card. The Italian health insurance card (Italian: Tessera sanitaria) is a personal card for all citizens entitled to benefits of the Italian National Health Service. [1] Its rear side acts as a European Health Insurance Card. The objective of the health insurance card is to improve social ...