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You're still stuck with a bill, if you're a foreigner. They will treat you, like they will in most of the world. But you're still stuck with a bill afterwards.
by vegardx 14y ago
You're still stuck with a bill, if you're a foreigner. They will treat you, like they will in most of the world. But you're still stuck with a bill afterwards.
Also, unless my memory is totally off, each country has to pay up for EHIC, depending on who used what, and visa versa. So the cost should be evened out.
Edit, because I cannot reply to you later down: I think we have a different view on what emergency medical care is. In most of the world you will get fixed up so that you are no longer in life threatening condition, this is the case in USA, Denmark and Norway. But afterwards you will have to pay, even in Denmark, as long as you're not apart of EU and have the European Health Insurance Card or a citizen of any of the Nordic countries, which has a special agreement.
- _delirium 14y agoThat isn't the case; Denmark simply does not charge for acute emergency visits, and does not send a bill. In addition, they pay for their own residents who incur such bills within the EU on trips under 30 days [1], which is part of the controversy: a French person who ends up in a Danish ER is not billed, but a Danish person who ends up in a French ER is billed, with the bill paid by the Danish government. Most Danes would prefer that each country provide free emergency care to all, like they do with fire and police. [1] http://www.sos.dk/en/Corporate/OurNetwork/ForMedicalFacilities/TheDanishTravelHealthInsuranceScheme/ http://www.sos.dk/en/Corporate/OurNetwork/ForMedicalFaciliti...
- ktizo 14y agoYou're still stuck with a bill, if you're a foreigner. In the UK you are not, purely because they don't do the accounting that way in the first place as it would cost a lot of extra money to keep track of billing when no-one is being individually billed, so there is no bill to bill.