I am a foreigner and I plan to go to Spain

Hello good afternoon, my name is Gonzalo, and I am planning to go to Spain for an indefinite time, I was reading but I cannot understand how it works is a medical system, I am Argentine and I also possess Portuguese citizenship, my question is what requirements, steps, I mustFulfill in order to obtain insulin.In my Argentine country it is 100% free by law both insulin and reactive strips for Argentines and foreigners that are attended in public hospitals.
I would like to know how it is in Spain and if not free or not cover any percentage for being a foreigner that has approximately in a pharmacy.

I hope it has been clear
I thank you for help
Thank you

Gonzalo

In Spain, health is something different depending on the autonomous community in which residues but more or less cover the same.I put a summary, that they correct me if something is not correct.
I think that if you work in Spain you have the right to ask for the health card that covers you as a Spaniard that would be (it is requested in the health center that corresponds to the area where you reside, there they will inform you of everything):
- Doctor and proof you need (both primary care and specialists).First you have to go through the elementary school and he already sends you to the specialist.Endocrine then send you to the specific tests to other specialists such as ophthalmologist.
- Strips and needles are free and are collected in the assigned health center.
- Glucometer (they give you one and change it to you every so often or if it spoils).In each community they have different brands.
- Lancetas in some communities give them to you and in others you have to buy them but they are cheap.The best thing is online because in pharmacies everything is usually more expensive.Because you get an idea for my glucometer, you are worth the 200 € 12 lancet box on Amazon.
- Insulin covers you social security.It has a fixed value with medical social security recipe of € 4 and peak (I don't remember exactly).The rest of retiree medications are almost free and the rest I think we pay 50%, except in some special medications such as insulin that are fixed.In a normal price without recipe, insulin varies a bit of the brand but are over € 100.Even if you go to a private endocrine, insulin can be prescribed by the primary doctor equally so as not to pay the entire price.The endocrine is the one who puts the treatment but then it is the primary one who makes you the recipes.

If you do not work, I am not sure how it would be, I know you have the right to be attended in the emergency room but I do not know if it covers you something else.

@"Yesssica_a", to me the Endocrine of Social Security does not send me to other specialists.To make the eye background the first time I send me the header now every year they send me the appointment.To the rheumatology also the header.The endocrine makes me liver analysis, kidney, etc., but na gives more.I should work on all places the same, I have always seen it very unfair.

@"Gonzalo", I can't help you, I don't know how to come if you come from outside.Let's see if someone can clarify your doubts.

@"Anaisabel" It is seen that in each community they do it in a way.To me in the background, the endocrine always sends me.The header only if I go for a problem to consultation that requires going to a specialist but everything related to diabetes is directly given by the endocrine.Less the recipes that if something changes me makes me on paper but then I have to go to the header to make the electronics.
The truths transferred the truth that is very bad because in practice according to where you live there are things that cover you and others that are not and that is not fair, it should be for all the same.

@"Yesssica_a" My idea is to go to work, and be able to settle, it would be worth what you told me in the first msj.
I appreciate the answers both to you and @"Anaisabel"

Thanks Gonzalo.

That said, I see it unfair.

What I said last or what?

I think it refers to what told me about the differences between autonomous communities.In Spain, health is managed by each community independently and in practice there are different things.Depending on where you live there are things that cover you and others than not as what I put on the lancetas.Each also has a different protocol to give you the strips and needles, etc.In general we have a good health system and good doctors and cover us almost everything but there are always things that could be improved.And of course the differences between communities are one of them.

Before the crisis health in Spain worked as a national health system.Health attention was a right of all residents (they were citizens of the country or not).Now we gradually return to that model after a time when rights for foreign citizens were restricted.Anyway, you say that you have dual nationality, Argentina and Portuguese, consequently a citizen of the European Community you have the same rights as the Spaniards as health care

First you have to register in the City Council where you have to live.Then with this document you go to the social security offices of your community and ask the sanitary tsrjeta.
If you indicate that city will you live sure there