Migrant Patients To Be Charged By NHS

Too little too late.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25529636

It's camerons way of trying to distract people from the real important thing's,I don't think it will happen it would cost to much to run ,and whose going to collect it ?.

The cost is small compared to the savings, you just need the right system.

Having returned from Spain where you are treated generally like a leper by the UK government, they have quite clear systems. They wont turn an EU citizen away for emergency treatment, but a lot of extra treatment is paid for, for instance a longer hospital stay. In Spain you have to prove you have adequate health cover and income now when you move there. There are too many Brits and other expats there who just expect to get free health cover if they are ill.

The same should exist here for non EU citizens. If you come to live here and you dont contribute to the system then you get no health cover. You have to go private. If you contribute, then get it.

I have worked all my life had to pay taxes, national insurance and still have to pay for prescriptions so why should any immigrants come to this country without paying a penny and expect free medical treatment


Shard End boy

Well, apart from the EU health agreements, they shouldn't. On going to live in Spain we had private health cover. We weren't entitled to state care because we weren't of retirement age and we didn't work. That's the way it SHOULD be, unless you are on holiday and you fall ill.

Surely it can't be surprise to anyone that you don't get anything for nothing. Everything costs money, especially being served by skilled staff.
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I don't know if i've posted this in the right thread but I have just read that the Romanians are on their way and are saying that they will earn around £40 a day by begging because the British are so generous They are planning hanging placards around their necks saying i'm ill and have cancer


Shard End boy

Dennis they wouldn't get a penny from me. I only give to proper charities and support them Beggers get Begger all from me.

Sheldonboy Don't get me wrong I am not tight although some might say I am, only if they don't get their own way I don't give any donations to charities as the people who need it don't get it. There was an advert on the tele the other week saying that of every pound donated 96pence goes to the people who need it, where does the other 4 pence go. 4 pence may not seem a lot but multiply that by a lot of donations and you are talking a lot of money for someone.


Shard End boy

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Sheldonboy Don't get me wrong I am not tight although some might say I am, only if they don't get their own way I don't give any donations to charities as the people who need it don't get it. There was an advert on the tele the other week saying that of every pound donated 96pence goes to the people who need it, where does the other 4 pence go. 4 pence may not seem a lot but multiply that by a lot of donations and you are talking a lot of money for someone.


Shard End boy

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Probably a lot of people will not like me for this and I admire you for your charity work. I am probably hanging myself. But take the red cross which I admire.Their head offices are in Wimbledon one of the sort after locations in London . Do they need that ? they have 2600 staff do they need that many, when they have 31,000 volunteers
This is my grudge and yes I've copied it
Charity boss 'earning more than £100,000' a year says six-figure salaries 'aren't an issue for donors'

Astonishing outburst came as pressure grows on charity bosses
Figures show at least 30 enjoy salaries of more than £100,000 a year
Many organisation are taxpayer funded through government, EU and UN
Head of Charity Commission accused right-wingers of hating charities

Shard End boy

Many charities prove to be run more for the benefit of the directors than the supposed cause.
Charity is a big business which without volunteers wouldn't exist. So how do the high rolling freeloading directors get away with it?

I remember seeing some TV documentary where bosses are brought to the shop floor to do a days work.
One such "boss" was the head of the RSPCA. He attended a call out to a maltreated dog. His minion went in a van while he turned up in his Rolls Royce.
He knew he was being filmed, he was just too stupid and spoiled to see the crime in it. I do not support the RSPCA.

I recently discovered that my long time charity, The RNLI (Shoreline Member), tried to put another local sea rescue group out of business many years ago.
I will research this when I get the opportunity and perhaps, in future, my money will go to the underdog, who still operate but with very little support.

One thing is for sure, notwithstanding the RNLI Irish arrangement, I never give to charities who claim to support anything outside of the UK.

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I don't know if i've posted this in the right thread but I have just read that the Romanians are on their way and are saying that they will earn around £40 a day by begging because the British are so generous They are planning hanging placards around their necks saying i'm ill and have cancer


Shard End boy

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