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What country lets non-citizens just walk in to use the health care system?
by swebs 6y ago
What country lets non-citizens just walk in to use the health care system?
- miguelrochefort 6y agoThailand.
- jogjayr 6y agoI assume they were referring to countries where you can pay out of pocket for care at private clinics and hospitals, as a visitor. It's called medical tourism. India is a major destination.
- dominotw 6y agoUK
- tin7in 6y agoThe whole European Union for EU citizens with an EU health card.
- dudul 6y agoI actually can't think of one I've visited that doesn't.
- mportela 6y agoBrazil
- kwhitefoot 6y agoNorway, Poland. I'm a UK citizen, resident in Norway, who has visited Poland on business many time. I stayed a night in the Krakow Neurological Institute somewhere between fifteen and twenty years ago, cost me about 100 USD. The ambulance that took me there was free.
- stevenwoo 6y agoWow, you might already know this but in the USA people decline ambulance trips because the cost out of pocket can break them financially. A ambulance helicopter trip (which people are usually not in a position to decline) costs roughly 40,000 last time I read about it, a lot of people crowdfund to pay for this.
- rossjudson 6y ago25 years ago I was hiking on a mountain in Switzerland with a group of people. Descending, a guy lost his footing and broke his leg. So there we all are, a few hundred feet from the summit. We could see the town below us, and the hospital there. Someone had a cell phone registered in the UK. We talked to a UK operator who connected us through to the hospital in the town below. They wanted a credit card before sending up a helicopter and doctor ;) If I don't have this completely wrong in my head, I think it was $2500 on unfortunate hiker guy's Amex. A few minutes later we saw the helicopter lift from the hospital and head straight towards us. Down came the rescue equipment and Dr Bruno, who told us not to worry because "We do this all the time!". 10 minutes later he was ascending with the patient. I learned two things: Doctors in Switzerland really do do this stuff all the time, and always have hiking accidents near well-equipped medical facilities that aren't trying to totally screw people over. I'm pretty sure it was the best $2500 that guy ever spent.
- pvaldes 6y ago> What country lets non-citizens just walk in to use the health care system? Almost all. Non citizens just pay a fee or are reinbursed later by their insurance or healthcare system. In many cases citizens from country 'A' can use healthcare in 'B' as long as their own citizens will be granted the same treatment in exchange when visiting 'A'. It depends on the treatises signed between the two countries. Allowing foreigners to use the health care system for free is sometimes allowed (or even encouraged) if that protects the interests of the country.