Most of the comments are definitely out of topics.
The European health insurance card only covers emergencies, and I've never said it was a problem. The problem was being able to investigate the problem because they only allowed her to access to some basic checkups like blood exams, that were not enough to solve her problem.
Of course we have German speakers as friends but in this case it did not help.
The biggest problem I see is the fact that Anmeldung and the health insurance subscription are totally disconnected, so you can have people with the right to live in Germany but actually without the possibility to access to the German healthcare system, that is again what I call a bug.
Difficulties accessing medical services as an EU immigrant in Germany
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Re: Difficulties accessing medical services as an EU immigrant in Germany
#32She's not registered, she doesn't have a job and never had one. In other words she's a tourist and is treated as such. That's not a bug, that's a feature and the system working exactly as designed.
It seems you totally invent a story. I'm complaining about the fact that you can register in Germany without having access to an health insurance, and that's bad from any point of view.
Re: Difficulties accessing medical services as an EU immigrant in Germany
#33Not a direct response to the post. But if you have someone visiting you from another country, consider setting up an "incoming health insurance" for them. It's just a few bucks. Whenever I have relatives coming to Germany from abroad, I will have this insurance ready for them.
Again, she is registered in Germany and she has everything she needs except for the most important thing, which is the possibility to access to the health system.
Re: Difficulties accessing medical services as an EU immigrant in Germany
#34There are some details missing. I suspect that the woman moving to Germany effectively moved her out of the Italian health system. Different story if she was traveling to Germany - her Italian health insurance should have been portable then. Moving residence between countries without researching health insurance is not wise. German hospitals will still provide emergency care if needed in a life threatening emergency.…
Italian health insurance works only for emergency, that does not mean everything else is not important. Every syndrome is treated as not urgent, meaning your life is not in danger.
Re: Difficulties accessing medical services as an EU immigrant in Germany
#35There are some details missing. I suspect that the woman moving to Germany effectively moved her out of the Italian health system. Different story if she was traveling to Germany - her Italian health insurance should have been portable then. Moving residence between countries without researching health insurance is not wise. German hospitals will still provide emergency care if needed in a life threatening emergency.…
I'm paying taxes in Germany and my girlfriend does not have access to the health system just because we are not married, that's absurd.
Re: Difficulties accessing medical services as an EU immigrant in Germany
#36Article aside - repeating (what feels like) every other sentence as big heading is incredibly annoying and makes it hard to focus on the content. Who thought that would be a good idea??
It's a layout aspect and there's nothing wrong with it. If you like pure text articles you can just use an app like Pocket that extracts only the text from every article you add.
Re: Difficulties accessing medical services as an EU immigrant in Germany
#37She's not registered, she doesn't have a job and never had one. In other words she's a tourist and is treated as such. That's not a bug, that's a feature and the system working exactly as designed.
It seems you totally invent a story. I'm complaining about the fact that you can register in Germany without having access to an health insurance, and that's bad from any point of view.
Registering and having health insurance are completely unrelated to each other. Additionally registering in Germany is actually a legal requirement, having health insurance is not (under certain circumstances).