With the limitations that I mentioned in post #75.
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Interesting you should use this analogy.

I did and still do have a heart condition that necessitated bypass surgery otherwise I would have died.

Canada did cover it and I was required to pay nothing.

I seriously doubt that if it weren't covered (highly unlikely) that I would have gone to the UK and expected it to done free there. I would have used my own funds to pay for it as any other Canadian would do.

The NHS is not a bank account that you pay into and you get to withdraw from at your convenience if you no longer live in the UK.

I would use it, of course I would, but I would expect to have to pay for it, either personally or via travel insurance. I don't see what's wrong with that.

Can I assume then that when you travel around the world you automatically expect the health system of the country you are in to treat you for free, or is it just the UK's system that you feel entitled to abuse because you used to live there

Money earned in UK + money earned in Canada = total money spent in Canada.

Contribution to the social spending in Canada (including health care) = Tax paid on global income.

This only works if you understand that taxes are paid by individuals but spent for the benefit of societies.

And back to the original question - is he paying tax in two countries?
Answer: Yes

No – it’s just the uk.

This is being blown way out of proportion.
I have annual insurance coverage, but for the sake of a visit to the doctors in the UK there is no way I’d go through the hassle to claim. If they insisted I pay, I would.

But he only has the right to benefit from tax expenditure in one.

Which was in fact, the original question.

I remember a discussion a while ago on the Brits2Vancouver, where someone was saying that if you went to A&E by ambulance it was free, but if you 'walked' in you had to pay.

This doesn't sound right according to bazzz's Norfolk link that A&E treatment is free.

Ironically, I, unless near death, would never dream of using an ambulance to get to hospital, but from what the Brits2Vancouver say, would then be charged. Whereas if I cost the NHS more by using an ambulance, wouldn't then have to pay for anything.

But it looks like I can pop into A&E anytime I'm visiting Alan Partridge for free.

Thanks for that tip bazzz

yes that's correct, I completely agree and never stated that he did.

You do realize, don't you, that we're going to have to work a lot harder to get this thread up to 949 posts, which is where the Exchange Rate thread now sits.

Then there's the Can't sell the house and no plan B thread, which admittedly isn't doing as well as the Exhange Rate thread. Still, it has reached 161 posts to this point. How come not being able to sell your house and being without a Plan B is more important than the NHS and taxes? I mean the fact that that thread was started nearly two months before this one is no excuse.

Now, back to the salt mines, everyone.
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But he, and other posters did.

<waste of time...ah well>

Madame Judy, you will soon be competing with a certain poster for the label of "most notorious" at this rate.

If you were in Canada and drawing an index linked pension from the UK, would that entitle you to pop over there for treatment on the NHS?

Wow, have you got a direct alert on "notorious" set up?

On edit: THREAD DRIFT ALERT!!!

A fluke, but a neat one.