Undocumented migrants in Spain to regain access to healthcare?

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Undocumented migrants were officially excluded from the Spanish healthcare system in 2012. The implementation of this measure was extremely uneven between the different regions. Since September 2015 there has been a proposal from the Inter-territorial Council of the Spanish Healthcare System to extend primary care to undocumented migrants, but no decision has been taken in that respect to-date.

Authors: Ana Arriba González de Durana and Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes