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Any Britons who wish to receive free treatment have to provide their passport and also their medical card which is available from the department of health in the UK before they can be treated. For a basic consultation expect to pay around GBP 15 which can rise to around GBP 50 for a consultation with a private specialist. However, if an expat is unfortunate enough to require a hospital stay they will find that few of the nursing staff will have foreign language skills and that nursing care where it is available is limited. In Bulgaria expatriates who fall ill will need their friends or family to help out or else they should see about being repatriated to the UK or wherever their home country is. In terms of expatriate healthcare in Bulgaria, those who can afford it generally prefer to go to the private clinics, doctors and hospitals that are available in the main towns and cities. In terms of the availability of hospitals, clinics and medical services in Bulgaria all major towns and cities have at least one hospital and most doctors in state and private hospitals have at least a rudimentary understanding of English. There are no hazardous health issues that expatriates living in Bulgaria need to be aware of but those who are moving or travelling to Bulgaria are advised to get an up to date tetanus injection and consider Hep A and Typhoid as well. This means that in an emergency one doesn’t have to panic and try and find a translator!
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A good expatriate healthcare plan is essential for anyone living outside of their country of nationality. The cost of treatment isn’t that cheap in the first place and medical inflation is expected to grow this by over 7.7% in 2008 (CNNMoney.com).
Many people still believe that they can rely on reciprocal arrangements between the country of residence and their adopted country, but if you’re not working (and paying into a government scheme) there’s every chance that you don’t have any protection at all. In your country of nationality there is most likely a requirement of residency to allow treatment to be received in a public health facility (as there is in the UK).
This was recently highlighted by the French government, who recently decided that any new people moving to their country must prove that they are financially prepared so not to be a burden on the State which now includes proving that appropriate healthcare insurance is in place. Similar rules apply in much of Europe.
Purchasing appropriate cover that looks after you in your adopted country and your country of nationality (plus the rest of the world, if available) is paramount for anybody considering moving abroad, even if it’s a basic In-patient/Day-patient policy with evacuation, such as Expatriate Healthcare’s Primary plan http://www.expatriatehealthcare.com.
If you go abroad and ‘go commando’ you are putting the dream of a long relaxed life with financial security in jeopardy.
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