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I've just got my Hungarian birth certificate and my residency card. I'm now in Budapest but I'm about to leave permanently to France. I'd like to do a health insurance as a EU citizen but I don't know how. I heard that there's a card called EHIC, but I don't know how to do it or where to pay for it. I'm open also for other options.

How can I do a health insurance that will hold in France as well?

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The EU/EEA has a coordination system for social security (which includes national health insurance). One of the fundamental rules of this system is that you are always subject to exactly one national social/health insurance system. Which country you are insured in is determined by a set of rules or (in complicated cases) by a decision of the relevant national authority. You do not get to choose where to pay your health insurance.

As a few examples, you will be insured in the country where:

  • You work (if you work as an employee or a self-employed person in only one country)
  • You live (if you work in multiple states simultaneously)
  • You worked last (if you're unemployed and e.g. receiving unemployment benefit after being employed somewhere)
  • You live (if you're unemployed and not receiving any benefits or you have never worked anywhere in the EU/EEA)

http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=851

The country where you are insured will also issue you an EHIC card. This card entitles you to urgent healthcare in any other EU/EEA state. It does not give you full health coverage (including non-urgent care) everywhere. However, in some cases, you can be fully covered in multiple countries at the same time, for example if you're a cross-border worker (returning home at least weekly).

http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=559

Depending on your exact circumstances and your current status, you may first get a Hungarian EHIC card which you would then have to return when you move to France, where you will get a French EHIC. Or if you're going to move really soon, you may get to skip the Hungarian part completely.

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  • i'm flying tomorrow for 4 years. On the site of the french EHIC service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F213 it's written I need a 13-digits social security number. Is it written on my residency card?
    – Heisenberg
    Commented Mar 28, 2018 at 5:18
  • That's something called NIR, which you will get when you register for health/social insurance (or your employer registers you). See fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/…
    – TooTea
    Commented Mar 28, 2018 at 13:32
  • @Heisenberg You don't need en EHIC to receive care in France if you are insured through the French insurance system (as is likely to be the case, as TooTea explained).
    – Relaxed
    Commented Sep 13, 2018 at 22:07
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    @TooTea It's useful to know that nobody calls it that in practice. "Numéro de sécurité sociale” or, typically, “numéro de sécu” is what people use.
    – Relaxed
    Commented Sep 13, 2018 at 22:08

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