Proposal to give everyone the right to public health care

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1. The bill would make all Spaniards and all foreigners registered in Spain holders of the right to health protection and health care, and would delete the articles that restricted that right.
2. It would amend the immigration law so that foreigners registered in their municipality's census would get health care on the same terms as Spaniards. It also covers specific rights: emergency care, people under eighteen, and pregnant women during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period.
3. It would extend access to public health care to all Spaniards living in Spain who could not have that right recognized under other rules, regardless of their income level. It would also extend benefits to self-employed people in the terms provided, and would keep the special regime of certain civil servant mutual funds.
4. The Government would have two months to approve the rules needed to implement the law, and the law would take effect the same day it is published in the Official State Gazette (Boletín Oficial del Estado).

Who it affects

• Spaniards living in Spain who currently do not have the right to public health care recognized: They would have access to public health care on the same terms as everyone else, regardless of income.
• Foreigners registered in the municipal census in Spain: They would have the right to health care on the same terms as Spaniards.
• Foreigners not registered in the census: They would keep emergency care for serious illness or accident until medical discharge.
• Foreign children under eighteen and foreign pregnant women: They would have the right to health care on the same terms as Spaniards.
• People covered by civil servant mutual funds (Mutualidad de Funcionarios Civiles del Estado, Mutualidad General Judicial or Instituto Social de las Fuerzas Armadas): They would keep their specific legal regime unchanged.

Words worth knowing

Proposición de ley

A text through which a parliamentary group proposes a new law. It is not an approved law until the whole process is complete.

Empadronamiento

Registering with the local registry (padrón) of the municipality where you live.

Real Decreto-ley 16/2012

A 2012 rule that restricted access to public health care and that this bill would reverse.

Asegurado

A person who, under Royal Decree-Law 16/2012, has the right to public health care because of their relationship with Social Security.

Alta médica

Medical discharge, when a doctor ends treatment because the patient no longer needs care.

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