{"id":2785,"date":"2013-05-30T16:57:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T15:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/?p=2785"},"modified":"2013-05-30T16:57:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T15:57:11","slug":"european-union-to-take-action-over-spanish-hospitals-rejection-of-the-eu-health-card-ehic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/european-union-to-take-action-over-spanish-hospitals-rejection-of-the-eu-health-card-ehic\/","title":{"rendered":"European Union to take action over Spanish hospitals&#8217; rejection of the EU Health Card (EHIC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\"><em>The<\/em>\u00a0European Commission is\u00a0understood to be taking legal action against the Spanish Government\u00a0over refusal of some Spanish hospitals to\u00a0accept the European Health Insurance Card which provides all\u00a0EU citizens to free healthcare in public hospitals across member States.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that some\u00a0Spanish hospitals have been\u00a0rejecting the card and have advised tourists that they must settle their medical bills personally or via their travel insurance, adding that\u00a0the EHIC was not valid for treatment in Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0European Commission is\u00a0understood to be taking legal action against the Spanish Government\u00a0over refusal of some Spanish hospitals to\u00a0accept the European Health Insurance Card which provides all\u00a0EU citizens to free healthcare in public hospitals across member States. It is understood that some\u00a0Spanish hospitals have been\u00a0rejecting the card and have advised tourists that they must settle their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/european-union-to-take-action-over-spanish-hospitals-rejection-of-the-eu-health-card-ehic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">European Union to take action over Spanish hospitals&#8217; rejection of the EU Health Card (EHIC)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,6,30,23,25,26,28,27,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alc-international-health-insurance-news","category-alc-travel-news","category-expat-alert","category-expat-global-health-news","category-global-health-news","category-global-health-options","category-global-medical-alert","category-global-medical-insurance-news","category-health-alert-worldwide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}