Country Specific Reports Now Show Expat Admitted Status

The country specific expatriate destination country reports, whenever possible and when the information is available, will show if an expatriate residing in the country will need to secure admitted insurance in order to stay in the country and keep the work visa.

Countries such as Saudi Arabia, Netherlands, and many others now require expatriates residing in the country to have health insurance with a local admitted insurance company or risk heavy taxes or being essentially "thrown out" of the country.

This seems to be the way of things to come.  In the past, it may have been enough for expatriates to demonstrate that they had a health insurance plan so as not to be a burden on the national health insurance scheme of the host country.  Now, in a measure that is more protectionist than anything else, expatriates are forced to take out host country insurance offered by an admitted carrier.