Talk:European Health Insurance Card

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Most important; who pays for the treatment? The receiving country? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.120.171.30 (talk) 20:21, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Comment "Beware of commercial sites that charge to 'review and forward' applications to the official EHIC site." is subjective and possibly spurious. Johnson8981 (talk) 23:56, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

It is advice from the UK NHS "You can apply for the card free of charge on the official EHIC website (www.ehic.org.uk). Other unofficial websites may charge you if you apply through them." http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/Healthcareabroad/EHIC/Pages/Introduction.aspx, seems good enough to include. --81.97.59.215 (talk) 22:43, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

You are naive if you think this warning is spurious. It's a major problem that thousands of people have fallen foul of. The unwary search on Google for 'EHIC' and the first site that comes up offers to fast-track their application, with monitoring from the beginning to the end of the process. What this actually means is that the site takes up to £20 from the victim, forwards the application to the NHS, then mails the victim to inform them that they have finished their business and shouldn't be contacted again. Despite saying that they will check the details, the forwarding is clearly automated. In effect the company has done nothing but left the victim worried about having given their national insurance number, d.o.b., address and credit card details to a dubious private company. This is a scam and to say this is naive is itself naive - or more likely, sympathetic towards the scammers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.17.211.22 (talk) 22:03, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Inflation has kicked in since 2012. The scammers now charge £35 for an EHIC application: https://www.ehic.co.uk/apply/ SandJ-on-WP (talk) 21:14, 10 October 2019 (UTC)