I’m being diagnosed for Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, which apparently has an average lifespan till 48 years old. I’d rather keep the extra income and enjoy the life while I’m alive, so I was wondering which countries don’t have mandatory pension contributions. I tried to look it up, but I couldn’t find any articles which just lists all countries on that basis. If anyone knows how to find it, I’d appreciate, but I’d also appreciate just a singular country example.
Makes sense that you would encounter it if you were considering migrating.
Re: insurance, New Zealand has universal healthcare and no-fault accident insurance, so creating a class of second class citizens who are not allowed access to it, would be cruel, especially if they ran out of money.
On a practical level, as well as being hard to enforce, it wouldn’t work well. Universal free hospitals means the private health sector lacks capacity for some things, and has to refer people back to the public sector.
It’s actually quite controversial policy. (Not in terms of people like OP because NZ health system is underfunded, so there’s no reason to want random strangers to come and freeload off the long-term taxpayers).
But NZ occasionally get cases where non-citizen children of migrants get serious diseases and are denied permanent residency etc, and there’s usually an outcry and petitions etc.
That does make sense. It is a country with a fairly small population, so I begrudgingly have to accept that it has to have some control over this kind of thing, not to overload its public systems.
On the whole I think the concept of countries in general is bullshit but that’s a debate best had in another thread.
The thing with the children of migrants being denied residency is truly heartbreaking. Do they become stateless as a result?
No, I’m pretty sure making people stateless is a crime under international law. Stateless people get to stay.
Basically what happens is Immigration orders the deportation of the child back to their own country of origin, and their parents are free to go back with them. Sometimes it’s the other way round and an ill parent gets deported instead.
Here is a typical example which got a lot of media coverage. A guy from South Africa moved to NZ on a temporary visa, after he brought his family over to join him, Immigration didn’t want a blind child to stay. But his argument was the care is better in NZ so she should be allowed to stay.