One of the problems, reports the paper, is that students cannot buy health insurance from any Finnish company.
Authorities have been recommending a Danish company IHI, believing it to be reasonably priced, but this recommendation was based on a mistake. Authorities believed the price quoted was for a full year, when in fact it was only for three months. As a result, many foreign students ended up paying four times that price annually.
In the fall, health insurance became mandatory for anyone with a residence permit who was not a citizen of an EU country, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, or Switzerland.
