Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2019 2:46pm
@ chrisso50 - I don't believe you are correct. Under Johnson's proposed deal, the existing reciprocal arrangements would have continued to the end of the transition period. But beyond that nothing has been proposed, and Johnson's deal wasn't approved anyway.
If there was to be a hard Brexit tomorrow, then there would be no transition period and all UK citizens resident in Spain would immediately lose their rights to healthcare, with the proviso that the Spanish government have made clear that they will continue to offer the same healthcare arrangements as now if the UK does the same for Spanish citizens in the UK.
The only way to guarantee that a UK pensioner can continue living in Spain with state funded healthcare is to revoke Article 50. Fortunately there is a clear option to vote for that in the upcoming General Election.