EHIC (TSE) that allows any person insured by or under the statutory social security system of the EEA countries and Switzerland, medical care in other Member States to receive free or reduced price if they need treatment during your visit ( for example) due to illness or accident, or if a previous chronic diseases, treatments such as dialysis.
The objective of this plan is to let people continue to live in a country without a return to medical treatment, so do not target people who have visited the country in order to obtain medical treatment, do not include treatments, as many Tooth types of treatment, which can be postponed until the visitors return home.
Health insurance usually only covered by the legal system of health care in the visited country, not to make travel insurance obsolete.
Stages in the card from 1 June 2004 and in 2005, the only document on health rights from 1 January 2006. The card is available in all parts of France (DOM) is valid, because they are part of the EEA, but not all areas of governance such as jersey or what is not Aruba.
This replaces the medical forms as follows:
* E110 - For international freight
* E-111 - For Tourists
* E119 - For unemployed job seekers
* E128 - for students and workers in other Member States.
for more details, please visit the site
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Health_Insurance_Card
