I fully agree Arthur as usual one rule for us another for Johnny ForeignerOriginally Posted by Arthur Little
Bill Maudling may not have been resident in the UK for 15 years ... OK. But he IS British ... and, being an elderly, retired person - WHO, throughout a working lifetime of at least four decades, has paid handsomely towards the maintenance of OUR 'Welfare State' ... in terms of hefty taxation and National Insurance contributions- surely he's entitled to benefit from the free care [at source] provided by the National Health Service.
So WHY SHOULD this... now in desperate need of NHS operative treatment on his leg ... be EXPECTED to *foot (s'cuse *puns in such circumstances) the *bill?
Diabolical!
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/...h-tourist-debt
Foreign “health tourists” who cash in on free NHS treatment have run up debts of £40million, an MP revealed yesterday.
Tory Chris Skidmore blasted the “free-for-all” system and urged the Government to issue a clear definition of who is eligible for care in the UK.
Mr Skidmore, a member of the Commons Health Select Committee, said he had found via Freedom of Information requests that just over £40million of debts owed by foreign nationals has been written off by NHS Trusts.
Another survey earlier this month showed the average unpaid Trust bill for providing care to foreigners was £230,000. St George’s Trust in south London had the largest, at £2million.
Mr Skidmore said the NHS “cannot be a free-for-all for everybody to use”, adding: “The NHS is the national health service, it is not an international one and while we all believe that healthcare treatment must be free at the point of use, it cannot be free at the point of abuse.”
Public Health Minister Anne Milton said: “We are currently reviewing arrangements to prevent inappropriate free access to the NHS.”
