La Region of Madrid, after the multiple news reports that several autonomous communities were withdrawing their health cards from the unemployed, it has communicated that all the unemployed registered in the autonomous community have guaranteed health coverage.
Since June 2009 and through the order 430/2009 within the territory of the Community of Madrid the free public healthcare to anyone regardless of your employment status and the fact that you are unemployed and have exhausted the benefit.
La health of the Community of Madrid also ensures health care to people without resources simply by having applied to the Community of Madrid for certificates of being people without sufficient resources. Prior to the order, and in the Community of Madrid, the unemployed and self-employed who have stopped contributing to Social Security they were no longer entitled to health care.
The cause was solely the incongruity existing between the text of the General Health Law of 1986 and the consolidated text of the General Law of Social Security of 1994. At least that is what has been explained from the regional government chaired by Esperanza Aguirre. The normative inconsistency was discovered by the Ministry of Health and Social Policies that led them to parliament to create a Public Health Law that you allow the universality of public health. However, and with the new Law, the effectiveness between unemployed situation without benefit and have free access to the public healthcare It will be produced as of January 1, 2012.
Source: Madrid Diario | Picture: M. Hairstyle