GHIC card.

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

Unfortunately it's not the same as it is now time limited...

Thus should you become ill and go over the three month stay out of every six months in an EU/EEA country it does not cover you...

Surely, if you become ill/accident etc, near to the time limited 90 days, and there is a likelihood of you going over your allowed 90 days, the travel insurance would be obliged to repatriate you.
If you are a dual national, and a national of the country, the 90 days limit would not apply, surely?

 

[motorbiking]

Isn't this due to the Schengen restrictions for 3rd countries? - if you are an EU citizen it shouldn't apply.

 

[Mottie]

Hmm. 17 posts and I can only see 5 of them so I’d hazard a guess that our resident U.K. hater/permanent alleged prospective emigrant is chipping in like it did over EHIC cards with the same lies. To summarise the EHIC/GHIC rules:
1. THEY ARE AND NEVER HAVE BEEN A SUBSTITUTE FOR PRIVATE TRAVEL HEALTH INSURANCE AND BOTH EHIC AND GHIC STRONGLY ADVISE YOU TO GET PRIVATE COVER.
2. They will cover any existing illnesses/conditions in a state hospital but only necessary health care and on the same basis as a resident of that EU country will get.
3. This means that you may have to pay something towards your treatment, you may have to travel a long distance to find a state run hospital that can cater for you or they may not even be able to treat your conditions.
4. They will not cover repatriation to your home country.
5. They will not cover mountain rescue so no real use for ski-ing/hiking holidays in the mountains.
6. They will not cover you if you are on a cruise.
7. Even if you don't have an EHIC or GHIC but need to travel, you will still be covered under the scheme so long as you're entitled to a card.

In summary, very little, if any, change from the EHIC and still nowhere as useful as proper travel insurance.

Have I missed anything?

 

[motorbiking]

nope

 

[Andydevon]

your missed socialist bedwetters, whining remainers anti Uk posters.

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

your missed socialist bedwetters, whining remainers anti Uk posters.

Oh God, there's two of 'em.
Now we'll have to put up with double bullshoite.

Unless it's Dangee's mate.
They all seem to have some perverted penchant for bedwetting.
it'll be triple bull shoite.

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

Hmm. 17 posts and I can only see 5 of them so I’d hazard a guess that our resident U.K. hater/permanent alleged prospective emigrant is chipping in like it did over EHIC cards with the same lies. To summarise the EHIC/GHIC rules:

An allegation based on ignorance.
That's about as good as it gets.

Have I missed anything?

Only the fact that you, by your own admission can't see the majority of the posts, but your assumption is that the posts are from someone that you accuse of lying without even being able to read the posts.
Sums you up to a treat, and accurately illustrates your prejudice.

 

[Andydevon]

And right on time up he turns well one of his identities. Seems to recognise the description to a tee.

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

And right on time up he turns well one of his identities. Seems to recognise the description to a tee.

That's no way to talk about Mottie after he thanked you for your post.
What kind of a person thanks you for a post like yours?
There must have been something missing in their lives.

 

[ellal]

If you are a dual national, and a national of the country, the 90 days limit would not apply, surely?

Nope...

Most EU/EEA countries require a dual national to be in the country for 6 months before being allowed back into their health care systems...

Believe me, we know about this first hand!

 

[Mottie]

Just an update on this GHIC malarkey. My mate has been out at his place in Sardinia for the last week and a half. He woke up in the middle of the night with a terrible pain in the stomach which he thought was down to a large meal plus finishing off what his wife left plus a bottle of wine. It got so bad that it necessitated a trip to the local hospital in Bosa. Turned out he had Biliary gall stones and he said it was the worst pain he had ever experienced. The hospital asked for his GHIC card, they took the details, checked them and treated him. He didn’t even need to use his travel insurance but he may have been lucky as that state hospital was quite near to where his Villa is near Modolo. I suppose if he had been in another part of the island he may have had to find a private hospital. He's back home now and on the mend.

In summary, the GHIC did what it said on the tin and was no worse than the old EHIC.