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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Where do you get travel health insurance from?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

From commercial providers. It's not necessary for EU Citizens travelling inside the EU/EEA as they are treated like people in the national systems for emergencies.

But it simplifies a lot because you can go to any doctor and sometimes they play dumb and pretend they don't know about the rules and want to force you to pay out of pocket (Happened to me in Austria, I've just reported them to the Austrian Health Insurance, he wanted 200€ which is outrageous overpriced and was a contracted doctor of ÖGK). Especially in Eastern Europe. But that applies only to GPs, Hospitals usually play by the rules.

And it's also useful for travelling outside of the EU

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Especially in Eastern Europe.

In post-Soviet countries, it was sadly normal that doctors would demand bribes on top of state insurance. The most outrageous shit I heard was and ob/gyn charging a months salary for a birth, half a month if it turned out to be a girl.