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Health insurance for 1-year Spanish student visa: pre-existing conditions, Obamacare, etc...

9 years ago
My wife and I are thinking of moving to Spain to Spain and enrolling in a greater-than-six-month CELTA/Spanish language program. We'd get an NIE and teach English part time.

For this we'd need the 1-year student visa, which includes proof of health insurance. In any case, as I'm over 50 and she's over 40 we'd want to have good health insurance in any case.

Currently we're enrolled in the ACA through NY — we have Health Republic of NY — and we both have pre-existing conditions (nothing major but things that need to be 'monitored' periodically, as they say).

I saw a blog post that said trying to buy international insurance can be very difficult, expensive and often exclude pre-existing conditions. That blog said to purchase Spanish health insurance, in Spain.

What are the best options for us?

Thanks for any help!

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