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wotsupcas wrote:You're correct it is a tiny percentage. However to me it's more the principle of it. I don't go to work and pay my taxes and NI for any Tom dick and Harry to use it. Emergencies aside of course. If I have to use a doctor on holiday in Greece I have to pay the guy before he'll even see me . I then have to claim it back on my insurance, why don't we adopt the same policy
You are talking paranoid rubbish. I have been on holiday in Greece when a friend who became ill. We took him to the local hospital; the treatment was excellent & free. I don't think they even asked to see his card.
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It's misdirection. The reason the NHS is struggling is because of under-funding not because of hordes of foreign health tourists. Blaming foreigners plays to some people's innate prejudice and allows those really responsible to get off the hook.
You're being had.
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wotsupcas wrote:If I have to use a doctor on holiday in Greece I have to pay the guy before he'll even see me . I then have to claim it back on my insurance, why don't we adopt the same policy
And this is why we are where we are - when people base their opinions not on fact or reality or their own experience, but on what a Daily Mail columnist wrote, or what Nigel Farage said on Newsnight.
As has been pointed out to you in very simple detail - you're wrong; as an EU citizen, you can walk into a hospital or GP in any member state, and be treated free of charge. Those bloody Europeans - they're so unreasonable!
bren2k wrote:And this is why we are where we are - when people base their opinions not on fact or reality or their own experience, but on what a Daily Mail columnist wrote, or what Nigel Farage said on Newsnight.
As has been pointed out to you in very simple detail - you're wrong; as an EU citizen, you can walk into a hospital or GP in any member state, and be treated free of charge. Those bloody Europeans - they're so unreasonable!
NO you can't.
Broken wrist in France, pay up, clIm back through insurance Medivac in Spain, pay up, claim tnrough insurance
Stop reading The Mirror, Tne Star for your "facts"
bren2k wrote:And this is why we are where we are - when people base their opinions not on fact or reality or their own experience, but on what a Daily Mail columnist wrote, or what Nigel Farage said on Newsnight.
As has been pointed out to you in very simple detail - you're wrong; as an EU citizen, you can walk into a hospital or GP in any member state, and be treated free of charge. Those bloody Europeans - they're so unreasonable!
Had to use the local doctor in nidri on lefkada last year. I had to pay even though I showed him my EU card. Must have been a private practitioner. So I'm not paranoid .. just used the wrong doctor
Bullseye wrote:It’s always the same. Those with agendas to keep people from realising they’re being mugged off put out stories that are easily swallowed.
Benefits Street – “the poor are to blame”
Bendy Bananas – “the EU are to blame”
Nigerian woman gives birth – “foreigners bleeding the NHS dry it’s their fault I can’t get treatment”.
Bullseye wrote:It’s always the same. Those with agendas to keep people from realising they’re being mugged off put out stories that are easily swallowed.
Benefits Street – “the poor are to blame”
Bendy Bananas – “the EU are to blame”
Nigerian woman gives birth – “foreigners bleeding the NHS dry it’s their fault I can’t get treatment”.
You’re being had.
Meanwhile those to blame get away with it.
I'm not being had. I know the NHS needs more funding,...it always will no matter how much we put in. However people who use the NHS who aren't entitled don't help. As I have said before it's not just the money it's the principle. I think they're cheeky gets.
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wotsupcas wrote:Don't know how to post links but Google Nigerian woman has quads on NHS . I suppose half a million quid is peanuts. We are mugs.
What do you suggest we do to children born 3 months prematurely - throw them out onto the streets?
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