Polish Healthcare, shaken not stirred

One of the many beautifully frustrating thing about living in Poland is the governmental bureaucracy. Any official state business –such as registering myself as a temporary resident of Kraków– takes almost an entire day. Let's not even bring up the hope that I can get decent local health care coverage; as a foreigner, and as a foreigner who doesn't belong to the European Union, it's as if I don't even exist to the government.

BUT...

I recently found this article by the BBC. It turns out that even sans documentation, I should be alright after all. This country will take care of me.

"Na zdrowie!" --> a Polish toast literally meaning "To Health"