Social Health Insurance
Sunday during the sermon, the guest speaker reminded everyone that we can do nothing at all without God's help. We are totally dependent on him. Thinking of that reminder, today we say, "The Lord helped us to apply for, receive and pay for Romanian social health insurance. Praise His Name!"
Romania has government health care and every citizen pays health insurance through their employer. Health care is then received without additional cost. When we applied for Romanian residence permits, we signed a document promising to obtain "the social health insurance." In other words, as a requirement to live in Romania, we needed to pay into the health care system.
It took a while to find out exactly what that meant for us since we have no income from Romania, but finally we discovered where to go. It happened to be an office just a few yards from the Open Bible Church! Pastor's wife Gabi went with Nancy to the office to help her make the proper arrangements. The clerks in the office had several discussions among themselves and the supervisor made a phone call before they figured out what to do with us foreigners. However, they were kind and finally worked it out, giving us the papers we needed to sign.
Meanwhile, Viki, a friend from church, called her cousin who works in the exact office in Cluj from which we needed papers to submit to the immigration office. Viki's cousin was able to send us the necessary papers in just a couple of days--an amazing accomplishment for a government office. Friday we turned in the papers to immigration and this morning we completed the matter by paying for the health insurance here in Gherla.
So now we have health insurance required in the US and in Romania. But even so, we are relying on the Lord to keep us healthy. We also do our part by eating a healthy diet and exercising.
Update on language test: Thank you for praying for us when we took our language test at our last class in Cluj on Friday. Mike and I both passed. We thank the Lord for his help. Please continue to pray as we study on our own and with the help of friends.
God is good. He is our helper!
Romania has government health care and every citizen pays health insurance through their employer. Health care is then received without additional cost. When we applied for Romanian residence permits, we signed a document promising to obtain "the social health insurance." In other words, as a requirement to live in Romania, we needed to pay into the health care system.
It took a while to find out exactly what that meant for us since we have no income from Romania, but finally we discovered where to go. It happened to be an office just a few yards from the Open Bible Church! Pastor's wife Gabi went with Nancy to the office to help her make the proper arrangements. The clerks in the office had several discussions among themselves and the supervisor made a phone call before they figured out what to do with us foreigners. However, they were kind and finally worked it out, giving us the papers we needed to sign.
Meanwhile, Viki, a friend from church, called her cousin who works in the exact office in Cluj from which we needed papers to submit to the immigration office. Viki's cousin was able to send us the necessary papers in just a couple of days--an amazing accomplishment for a government office. Friday we turned in the papers to immigration and this morning we completed the matter by paying for the health insurance here in Gherla.
So now we have health insurance required in the US and in Romania. But even so, we are relying on the Lord to keep us healthy. We also do our part by eating a healthy diet and exercising.
Update on language test: Thank you for praying for us when we took our language test at our last class in Cluj on Friday. Mike and I both passed. We thank the Lord for his help. Please continue to pray as we study on our own and with the help of friends.
God is good. He is our helper!
posted by Mike and Nancy Juntunen @ 12:05 PM
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