Access to Spanish Healthcare - 2011

I have just found out today (admittedly a bit behind the times on this!) that access to the Spanish healthcare system should be made available to all from April of this year.

It was approved in November, roughly:

First Vice President and Government Spokesman, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, announced that next month April 2011 a new law will achieve true universal health coverage in the NHS, "many years after the adoption of the Law of Health. " Currently some 200,000 people remain out of public health in Spain.

In the press conference after the Council of Ministers, Rubalcaba has advanced that the future Law of Universal Health Coverage SNS will allow 200,000 people "of different groups" are still being excluded in the coverage of public health. "There is the idea that everyone in Spain is presently covered by the national health system, but it is not," he admitted.

The government spokesman has Apostille that complete adoption of this law, many years after the adoption of the Health Act, universal health coverage. "

from Europa Press

So maybe those of us ex-pats who are not retired over here can now get access to the health care system in Spain at last!