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Old 10-06-08, 12:06 PM   #7
Tchocky
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Similiar-ish here.
If you're on low income or over 70, or receiving welfare, you have a medical card, which means you don't pay medical bills. Doctor visits, drugs, hospital visits, everything free except dental care.
If you're above that threshold, you pay 66 euro per day of hospital stay, no more than 660 in a single year. The care received is free, you're paying for the space you take up, in a sense. Medication costs are your own responsibility, up to 90 per month, after that you qualify for funds.
Private health insurance covers about half the population, usual costs between 5-900 per year, with another third on the medical card.

Healthcare is improving after a log period of underinvestment and stagnation. Think were about halfway down the EU league table.
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