Health Care

I checked questions asked on this subject before but need to clarify something if I may.

I am English and my husband is Germany and we currently live in Germany but plan to retire to Sweden in a couple of years.

Researching the National health service in Sweden many web sites state that even though we are not Swedish we will be entitled to the same subsidised National health service.

However, which is where we can not find a definitive answer, when researching about applying to the tax office for a personal ID number I have read that you need private health insurance covering you for 1 year from the date of moving to Sweden to be able to apply for the tax number.

The important question is do we really need private insurance to get the personal ID (Tax) number?  Is there a website that confirms the exact requirement?




An example of someones experience over confusion for treatment payment Private/National (found on the Internet):

A German gentleman had a private health insurance from the German company he worked for.  He was living and working in Sweden with his wife and they had registered for the Personal ID number.  His wife broke her arm and when they went for treatment he gave their Personal ID number.  He was billed based on the Swedish National health service but when he asked for a bill/receipt so he to claim it on his private insurance he was told he could not have one as it was registered on a National health service.  He is thinking that he will have to not declare his personal ID numbernext time and so get billed the full amount that he can pass on to his private insurance policy.