HEALTH AND MIGRATION: RIGHT TO HEALTH FOR ALL |
After more than six years of excluding
migrants from healthcare as a result of the PP’s Royal Decree Law 16/2012, the
arrival of the PSOE in government represented an opportunity to reverse this legislation
and return universal healthcare to Spain. And so it would prove with a new RDL
approved in 2018 to replace the previous one. We celebrated the news with
caution however, as the new law still has a number of gaps that can reuslt in
exclusion. We continue working to amend the RDL and the health system in Spain
to reinstate the right to healthcare for all persons, regardless of their
administrative situation.