Guide

Czech Republic – Health Service

Czechia runs a mandatory Social Health Insurance (SHI) system that delivers near-universal coverage to residents and workers, financed through compulsory wage-linked contributions rather than general tax revenues. The public healthcare offering is wide-ranging and substantially subsidised, yet expats who are

Denmark – Health Service

Denmark runs a universal, tax-funded public healthcare system that delivers comprehensive medical services at no direct cost to all registered residents. Organised along Beveridge-model principles — broadly comparable to the NHS — it operates across national, regional, and municipal tiers.

Cyprus – Health Service

Cyprus has a universal public healthcare system known as GeSY (General Healthcare System), which was introduced in 2019 and combines features of both a national health service and a social insurance framework. Funding comes from income-proportional contributions made by employees,

Cuba – Health Service

Cuba’s healthcare system is entirely state-funded and universal, provided free of charge to Cuban nationals at the point of use. Built along the lines of a Beveridge-style model — broadly comparable in structure to the UK’s National Health Service —

Costa Rica – Health Service

Costa Rica’s healthcare landscape is built around a dual structure: a universal public insurer known as the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS, or “La Caja”) that delivers comprehensive care to all legal residents through income-proportionate contributions, alongside a thriving

Croatia – Health Service

Croatia operates a compulsory social health insurance scheme administered by the Croatian Health Insurance Fund (HZZO) that encompasses all legal residents. Funding flows primarily from payroll contributions, and the scheme grants broad access to public medical services. Expats who gain

Chile – Health Service

Chile’s healthcare system is structured as a mixed, social-insurance-based model that brings together a public fund (FONASA) and private insurers (ISAPREs). Legal residents — expats included, provided they meet qualifying criteria — contribute 7% of their salary to one of

China – Health Service

China’s healthcare landscape blends a public social insurance framework with an extensive and rapidly expanding private sector. Employed foreign nationals are typically obliged to participate in the national social insurance programme, which opens the door to public hospital services —

Colombia – Health Service

Colombia runs a compulsory social health insurance scheme that extends coverage to virtually every legal resident, expats included, through a network of public and private insurers. Built around two distinct regimes — contributory and subsidised — it is widely considered

Caymans – Health Service

The Cayman Islands runs a compulsory, insurance-based healthcare system — structurally more akin to a Bismarck-style social insurance model than to a tax-funded universal arrangement such as the NHS. Every resident, expats included, is legally obliged to hold at minimum