Re:Fake doctor saved thousands of infants and changed medica...
by tormeh on Thursday October 17, 2019 @03:44AM
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Actually, you can become uninsured quite easily. Switch to private insurance, and then lose the means to pay for it. The private insurance has no obligation towards you, and the public insurance companies don't have to take you back, so at this point you're well and truly fucked.
Re:Fake doctor saved thousands of infants and changed medica...
by hef19898 on Thursday October 17, 2019 @04:13AM
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Well, I kind of tried. All you have to do is one of the following:
- drop under the minimum wage required for private insurance and the public has to take you back
- become unemployed and the state covers as mentioned above
Exceptions I know so far: Freelancers, mainly their problem is social security and retirement so. But yes, it can be tricky to return from private to public insurance. But as my insurance company stated, "there is an obligation to be insured, let's talk about your options". One very notable exception applies to people living permanently outside the EU. There it really gets difficult, and you might even loose coverage for conditions you didn't have before left the EU. But don't ask for details here, all I know about that is third hand knowledge.
There is no way to be a legal resident without public heath insurance here. Which route you choose, public insurance, public as part of your spouse, private is up to you. If you cannot afford it because you are, say, unemployed the state covers the costs for the public model.
Also worth noting, the public model doesn't exclude pre-existing conditions which can make private solutions prohibitively expensive.