Proposal to give everyone free public healthcare coverage

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1. The bill would give all Spaniards and all foreigners registered in a Spanish municipality the right to public healthcare on the same terms, regardless of their Social Security status or income.
2. Foreigners without municipal registration would keep the right to emergency care for serious illness or accident. Foreigners under eighteen and pregnant women would get healthcare on the same terms as Spaniards.
3. The bill would extend public healthcare to Spanish residents excluded by other rules, whatever their income, and to self-employed people covered by the fifteenth additional provision of Law 30/1995.
4. The Government would have two months to approve the rules needed to apply the law, which would take effect the same day it is published in the Official State Gazette.

Who it affects

• Spaniards and foreigners registered in a Spanish municipality: They would have the right to public healthcare on the same terms.
• Foreigners without municipal registration: They would have the right to emergency care for serious illness or accident.
• Foreigners under eighteen and pregnant foreign women: They would get healthcare on the same terms as Spaniards.
• Self-employed people: National Health System coverage would be extended to them.

Words worth knowing

Empadronamiento (municipal registration)

Registering with the local registry of the town hall of the municipality where you live.

Asegurado (insured person)

A person entitled to healthcare through a link to Social Security, either by paying contributions or as a beneficiary of someone who does.

Proposición de ley (bill)

A text through which a parliamentary group proposes a new law. It is not an approved law until the Congress and the Senate pass it.

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