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MSE News: Millions at risk as EHICs expire
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Former_MSE_Guy
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This is the discussion thread for the following MSE News Story:
"Six million European Health Insurance cards are due to expire in the first half of 2011 alone ..."
"Six million European Health Insurance cards are due to expire in the first half of 2011 alone ..."
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Millions at risk as EHICs expire
Millions at risk as EHICs expire
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Shouldn't this be in the travel section?
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use the right website
https://www.ehic.org.uk/Internet/home.do
there are quite a few that come up in google, that will process your online application for a free card for the payment of £9.99 or so.
It's free, no charge should be paid at all, so watch out for the scams.0 -
I wish you'd posted this story a month ago. Mine expired while I was in Lille and I didn't notice until I got back ...If you think of it as 'us' verses 'them', then it's probably your side that are the villains.0
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Why do we have to apply for EHICs? Wouldn't it be better if they were automatically issued when you apply for a passport?
I am not totally sure why you even need a card. Why can't showing your passport at a hospital be enough to prove you are entitled to treatment?0 -
......I am not totally sure why you even need a card. Why can't showing your passport at a hospital be enough to prove you are entitled to treatment?
In my experience you don't need a card, OH spent a couple of days in a German hospital, we didn't have a current card, they sent us a bill, we sent the bill to the appropriate section of the Health Department, they paid it.
The cynic in me suspects the EHIC card (and photo driving licences etc) are just to get us used to carrying a little card round with us prior to the introduction of compulsory ID cards0 -
Why do we have to apply for EHICs? Wouldn't it be better if they were automatically issued when you apply for a passport?
I am not totally sure why you even need a card. Why can't showing your passport at a hospital be enough to prove you are entitled to treatment?
Because entitlement to health care in the UK and hence reciprical arrangements is not dependant on nationality.
It is dependant on residence. You can be a UK passport holder and not be entitled to free health care.0 -
Because entitlement to health care in the UK and hence reciprical arrangements is not dependant on nationality.
It is dependant on residence. You can be a UK passport holder and not be entitled to free health care.
What I mean is when somebody applies for a passport run a check for EHIC eligibility at the same time. Then have a page in the passport that states whether they are eligibile or not. Seems less hassle than having a whole separate department handling EHIC applications.0 -
A passport is issued for 10 years. Eligibility for an EHIC can change over that period, eg if a passport holder goes to live overseas.Why do we have to apply for EHICs? Wouldn't it be better if they were automatically issued when you apply for a passport?
I am not totally sure why you even need a card. Why can't showing your passport at a hospital be enough to prove you are entitled to treatment?0 -
Doesn’t the same logic apply to eligibility over the life span of an EHIC card?0
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Civil Servants once were a cut above, but not now.
Moneysavingexpert.com is doing a hell of a lot of the work that is neglected by Civil Servants.
My family's EHIC cards expired last September (I had inadvertently been carrying them around with me ever since, thinking I was covered).
The renewal process online is a joke and I noticed no question asking me if I was still resident - the main data exchanged was the old card numbers and NI numbers which we know are two a penny in UK.0 -
This story appears to have been written 6 months ago...
"due to expire in the first half of 2011 alone..."
And here we are almost in June...
why not:
have already expired in the first half of 2011 alone..
or somthing similar?0
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