Expat medical insurance news: Spain to announce broad economic reforms
Related Articles |
| Expat Health Insurance News: Canadians celebrate across the globe Canadian expats across the globe were in a jubilant mood last night after their national ice hockey team secured the last gold medal of the 2010 Winter Olympics on home soil. 01st March 2010 |
| Expat Medical Insurance News: Dubai addressing India's expat healthcare concerns The Dubai branch of the Kerala Muslim Cultural Centre has pooled together funds to establish a new dialysis centre for Indian expats returning home for health reasons. 01st March 2010 |
| Expat Healthcare Insurance News: Iraq urges expats in Australia to vote A representative of Iraq's high electoral commission is visiting Australia to remind the country's 40,000-strong Iraqi expat community to exercise their right to vote in the troubled country's upcoming regional elections. 26th February 2010 |
| Expat Medical Insurance News: Expat awareness needed in South Korea Expats in South Korea keen to make a good impression with their fellow residents should be mindful not to adopt national habits unthinkingly, it has been claimed. 25th February 2010 |
| Expat Health Insurance News: Sanlam follows South Africans to Australia South African wealth management firm Sanlam has announced another international expansion to support the expat community in Australia. 24th February 2010 |
| News archive |
Expatica.com reports that, with the country facing its worst recession in decades, prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero will be focusing on education, bureaucratic reform and revised labour laws in order to pull the country out of the slump.
The country's unemployment rate has soared over the past two years, with the construction industry particularly hard hit as the demand for property among locals and expats has wilted.
For those who are living in Spain, or are considering a move to take advantage of the discounted real estate prices, This is Money has urged Britons to think carefully about expat healthcare, particularly those who are aged 50 or over.
The Spanish government recently introduced reforms which limited access to free healthcare with the European Health Insurance Card, claiming that older generations were placing an unmanageable burden on the country's hospitals and clinics.

Tags: Expatriate Insurance
2009-11-23


