People Using the NHS when they really should not
Jun 14th 2013 | 7:58 pm
#31
Concierge
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 29,825
From: ex ex-pat, in Taunton
Re: People Using the NHS when they really should not
Free movement of labour across EU boarders requires reciprocity of health care. Anyone from the UK can simply waltz into another EU country and be part of their system too. That seems like a good thing to encourage an efficient market in labour.
There are two issues here; whether you welcome the reciprocity of health insurance across EU nations and whether you agree with the way the NHS is organized and funded.
There are two issues here; whether you welcome the reciprocity of health insurance across EU nations and whether you agree with the way the NHS is organized and funded.
Jun 14th 2013 | 8:11 pm
#32
Ping-ponger
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 12,090
From: Yam Yam land
Re: People Using the NHS when they really should not
The reciprocity means that the NHS pay another EU country for the privilege of UK citizens gettin health care, even if they become residents, and if they are residents they get the same healthcare that residents of that country get, so in Spain, to get free healthcare you have to be contributing to the Spanish system, or be a pensioner, and even then you have to pay for drugs, no Spanish presription service like England, or even free prescriptions like Wales and Scotland.
Jun 14th 2013 | 8:31 pm
#33
Concierge
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 29,825
From: ex ex-pat, in Taunton
Re: People Using the NHS when they really should not
I was talking about residents, not visitors, residents are not allowed to use the EHIC card, which is only for short term visitors on holiday.
