Thanks Goldberg Global,

I must just say that I do agree with what France is doing but not how they are going to impliment it. We are both full time resident here in France and our income at the moment is via 2 small UK private pensions and 3 gites. Although all our income is fully declared at the end of each tax year and would be enough to sustain us, unfortunately the gite income will not be classed as 'earned income' therefore not allowing us to affiliate into the state health system here.

We've been thinking of downsizing anyway and perhaps a move to Spain and this health issue will just push us closer to the idea. I've had a quick look at some Private Medical quotes here and we'd be looking at over 5000 euro's per year for the two of us. I'll check out some more to see if it's going to be a similar price in Spain.

This is a good site by the way - very helpful!