File EU 883/2004 · 17
Falling ill on holiday
An ear on fire a thousand kilometres from your own doctor. European coordination has it covered: a card that costs nothing, a local patient's seat at the country's doctor, and reimbursement you can claim on either side of the border.
Item no. 1
The card, before the bag
Fourteen days on the Croatian coast, booked since January. On the packing list, between the sunscreen and the plug adapter: “European Health Insurance Card”.
You type the card's name into a search engine. The first result is an ad.
- Site
- fast-health-card, “your EHIC in 48 h”
- Price shown
- 29 € handling fee
- Small print
- private administrative assistance service
- The official site
- three results further down
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