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NHS Tourists will have to show passports to get treatment
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3036152/Show-passport-use-NHS-Clampdown-stop-migrants-tourists-abusing-Health-Service-costs-2bn-year.html
About time too! That woman who came here and had the 5 babies is just taking the p**s and we are stupid enough to let her!
I know people who've been abroad on holiday and without showing their insurance or EHIC Card, they get no medical treatment at all.
About time too! That woman who came here and had the 5 babies is just taking the p**s and we are stupid enough to let her!
I know people who've been abroad on holiday and without showing their insurance or EHIC Card, they get no medical treatment at all.
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The vast majority will have NHS numbers, and be on the system anyway.
Yep, about time
How do you link that number to a person without a passport?
You can be sure they'll be a database behind it.
So, it's Labour's so-called ID Card Database come back to haunt us. Maybe not straight away, they do these things in stages.
No idea, it's what the article states though. Pretty risky to use someone else's id to get healthcare, given their medical histories are likely to be different.
We can patch up the wounded ISIS fanatics with a British passport who don't face any repercussions and are returned back to their community. Then let them go back after the Bastard West welcomed them home, probably with a few hundred quid worth of Kaffir "unable to work because of discrimination cash!"
How have we managed so far?
I'm sure there will be other requirements to check stuff, other than just producing a passport.
If you are willing to fly thousands of miles I would suspect a little thing like medical history isn't going to stop you.
But how long is it before a British citizen is denied healthcare because they can't be found on the system?
I'd also point out that this proposal applies to British citizens who aren't resident in the UK which makes it even more difficult to prove who isn't entitled to free treatment
If we believe the claims then we haven't.
They're not free, we British Taxpayers pay for it, why should foreigners who contribute nothing be able to come here and have free treatment., they should have travel insurance, you try getting treatment in America without insurance or a credit card.
So do we just carry on giving every Tom, Dick and Harry who come into the country free medical care then? It have to be stopped, we are spending far too much money on people from other countries than our own. That also includes Aid as well, far too much on that.
Time to keep our money in our country.
What about indigenous residents who have not got a passport? Or driving licence etc?
Well get one or the other. You're going to need it as a form of identification at some stage anyway.
Just pointing out the several flaws in the proposal even if you ignore the simple fact that we aren't giving free treatment to every Tom Dick & Harry who comes into the country. The £2bn figure was rubbished when the government made the claim in the first place - a more accurate figure would be £200m once you remove A&E & non UK folk who are entitled to free healthcare due to residency, working and paying tax with a large part of that being UK passport holders illegally claiming free healthcare
A lot of people don't drive. A lot of people don't get a passport unless they are planning on going abroad.
Anyway, surely an NI number would do instead?
We could all have ID cards. Let's spend hundreds of billions to save a few quid
In Spain, those who are entitled to state healthcare, are required to take their health card to every appointment. No card = No treatment !!
The categories entitled are those resident foreigners who pay into the Spanish system - or, British resident pensioners receiving a UK state pension - reciprocal agreement.
EU holidaymakers are covered by the EHIC for emergency state medical treatment - their personal Insurance for private treatment.
Other resident foreigners have to purchase private healthcare....
The UK is very free & easy with their taxpayer's money....
That's as maybe but it's not what this policy does.
We could all have ID cards. Let's spend hundreds of billions to save a few quid