European Union Passport / Health Care

[ma-skis.com]

Does anyone have an EU passport and understand how health care would work in Britain or Sweden? My understanding is you can get a European Health care card, but there seems to be no information on how to actually obtain one.

Thought CP would be worth a shot anyways.

[Hack&Lube]

All I can say is that I've always envied people with EU citizenship. It's an amazing right and freedom to openly travel between basically every country and Europe and have many rights and privileges accorded to you including health care and education in many countries.

Info for the NHS:

http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/index/...rom_abroad.htm

You and your dependants are entitled to free NHS hospital treatment if your need for it arose during your visit to the UK. A medical opinion may be needed in order to decide if treatment should be provided free of charge. You have the right to free NHS hospital treatment if:-

*you are a national of an European Economic Area (EEA) country, living in an EEA state or Switzerland, or a refugee or stateless person living in an EEA state or Switzerland, or you are a non-EEA national who lives in an EU state and pays national insurance contributions there

*you normally live abroad, and are receiving a UK state pension, and have lived in the UK in the past for at least ten years

*you have lived in the UK for at least ten years in the past, but now live in an EEA state, or in a non-EEA state with which the UK has a reciprocal agreement
you are a national, or a resident of certain non-EEA countries, with which the UK has a reciprocal agreement.

EEA countries are the European Union countries and Liechtenstein, Iceland and Norway.

[Lee of Red]

Originally Posted by ma-skis.com

Does anyone have an EU passport and understand how health care would work in Britain or Sweden? My understanding is you can get a European Health care card, but there seems to be no information on how to actually obtain one.

Thought CP would be worth a shot anyways.

It's really a very broad question this. Need quite a bit more info, most specifically what you ultimately need to know?

The NHS in the UK will treat anyone for emergency care for free, regardless of their status in the country.

For existing conditions the rules are different depending on where you come from.