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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
It's served me well after all these years, it is a general rule though. Care to share your experiences, figures on a sheet or in a newspaper are easily manipulated so it'd be good to hear first hand of the coal face from someone who deals with it on a day to day basis.
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Sorry, not a bean counter so don't do figures but it sorta goes like this.... Foreign freeloaders come to visit, get free healthcare then go back home and then they tell their family and friends to come get their freebies too.
Never heard of the term Health Tourism? :
https://fullfact.org/health/health-t...-and-who-pays/
So yeah, um, Health Tourism is big issue leaving the NHS a £2bn black hole in unpaid and unrecoverable charges each year and that cost is rising. Hence why very soon, people will need to take their passport with them when they go to hospital to prove they are entitled to free healthcare and receive treatment. Passport checking is already happening but it's not full scale as of yet.