I've nothing against immigrants, never said I did. I'm not exactly white myself
But there is a difference in being allowed to vet people and make decisions
yourself about who you allow into your house;
or been told that anyone can turn up and live in your house any time, eat any of
your food, spend as much of your money as they want, get free health care
whenever they want - even if they have a criminal record and might even be
associated with terriests. Just because someone who lives across the street says so and
they do not even own your house.
There was an article late last year where many Eastern Europeans were coming to
the Uk, registering with GP practices to get a medical health card, then returning
back to their own country a few weeks later and then getting free health care paid
for by the NHS.
All they had to do was produce their NHS medical card to the hospitals, who
then billed the UK for treatment!
There was also a lot in the news about pregnant women from EU countries
coming to the UK to have their babies free of charge, then returning back
to their countries - health tourism it was called.
The NHS is paid for via the national insurance paid for by UK tax payers.
Yet people from other countries can just hop on a plane, wave their EU passport
and get treated free then return back home.
That is down right dishonest and Brussels think that is ok.
Health tourists cost UK taxpayers nearly £6billion in eight years
Incidentally my aunt who I look after was in hospital for 12 weeks at the end of
last year, I visited her almost every day. The maternity ward was just one floor below so
every day I visited I found myself sharing the hospital lifts with pregnant women on the
way to maternity.
Well over 50% of them were Easten Europeans. Some days all the women heading
to the maternity floor were Eastern Europeans. I was amazed I really thought the
newspapers were just exaggerating but honestly they weren't.
Top doctors blow whistle on EU health tourists who bleed NHS dry | Daily Mail Online
health tourists are milking the NHS for expensive cancer treatments, drugs and
dialysis by claiming they are UK residents on the day they arrive in the country,
top doctors reveal today.
They are being granted complex therapy – sometimes worth hundreds of thousands
of pounds – thanks to ‘incredibly lax’ guidelines governing full access to Britain’s
treasured Health Service, medics have told The Mail on Sunday.
Despite Government claims that it is cracking down on health tourism, the doctors
say these instructions potentially allow immediate access to everything the NHS
has to offer to around 500 million Europeans.
All that individuals from across Europe have to do, say the consultants, is come
here and claim to be ‘ordinarily resident’ in the UK – which they can do by quoting
a friend or relative’s address.
Until recently, official guidance was that EU passport holders had to prove they had
been living in Britain for at least six months to qualify.
But new guidelines have all but scrapped the ‘six-month rule’ – plainly stating: ‘It is
perfectly possible to be ordinarily resident here from the day of arrival.’
As a result the senior doctors say:
Patients are coming to hospital straight from the airport to demand treatment for
serious diseases they have had for some time;
- One Spaniard racked up bills topping £200,000 for cancer surgery and drugs – none
- of which he was billed for – by simply claiming he was living at a friend’s UK address;
- Eastern Europeans are regularly flying in for treatment they cannot get at home, which
- can cost tens of thousands of pounds, by claiming to be staying with relatives;
- Expatriate Britons who have not paid taxes or lived in Britain for decades are also
- eligible for immediate treatment.