£ island - Public Health Announcement

Just so we're clear... Brits going abroad can benefit from a reciprocal
care arrangement, but not Johnny Foreigner coming here?

Do you know what "reciprocal" means?

 

I was thinking more of their pillaging ukrm, you little scamp.

 

Yes

I have no problems with reciprocal care if the level of care is
broadly the same and the service doesnt become a 'one' sided
arrangement because of population flows , same with all the other
services


Our health , education and other services/ infastructures were never
set up to cope with the levels of demand now bieng placed upon them
by our changing society and that of the rest of the world .


We have to be realistic we cant keep the world were a small island
off the coast of europe we no longer the dominant world power we
once were

 

You can **** right off.

 

You are only a Faux Spic now

 

Good at stating the bleeding obvious aintya.

There is a section of WLO that thinks if all the little 3rd worlders
can't have it you don't deserve it either, therefor anyone should have
access to the UK and the NHS should provide as best it can for all
concerned.

Harsh though it sounds as the world has about twice as many people as it
can easily support we should be exporting a lot less healthcare. Or a
lot more contraception. Or something.

 

So you believe that its ok for foriegn nationals to come into the uk
make use of the facilities then leave without paying a brass farthing
into the system and expect those paying tax and NI within the uk to
cover thier costs

As you say you can **** right off

Thats why this once great nation is financially fucked

 

I think it's great. Was dead impressed by the Greek hospital who
stitched the end of my finger back on after an anchor windlass
incident. Just like the NHS, there was no question of asking for
payment.

Yeah, that'll be it.

 

I'm officially a foreign national, as well as being a tax-paying
British citizen too. I think it's only fair that we extend the same
medical treatment to visitors to this country as many Brits get abroad,
regardless of their country of origin.

 

Have they not learnt their lesson yet ?

 

Even the ones that keep the hospitals staffed ?

Also a bit harsh on the countries we took over, used all their natural
resources and as soon as they got uppity fucked off and left them.

And we go full circle.
So, what was your septic mates excuse ?

 

That the world dominating power that striped other countries of
resources and now wonder why they want something in retuurn ?

 

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So we make them pay then?

I'd actually prefer it if we could have reciprocal agreements with all
countries that have a similar level of medical expertise available to
their residents as we have available to us.

The rest can **** off.

 

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What the **** are you on about?

 

Not always. I've had minor A+E treatment in the USA that was FOC and
same again with medical treatment in Malta without having to show my
Maltese passport despite looking and sounding English.

Oooh, you're so harsh

 

When did Champ last visit the CI's?

 

Because we have our own version of the NHS, paid for by us, through
taxation and other bills. If treatment is required in the UK, it's
paid for by Guernsey. No handouts, no freebies - just our own, far
less inflated and wasteful system.

What a pile of crap, however you're (YTC) being pretty consistent to
your name here so why break a streak

Yes - however if you consider what it used to be before TRP was
introduced [1], you can see why they moan. They see the percentage
increase (lots), not the value. Trying to tell people that you pay
that per MONTH in the UK falls on deaf ears.

[1] The very weird Rateable Value system, which increased for having
such things as more than one toilet and an outside tap - very odd.

 

Unemployment benefit - just like the UK.

See above - a match (and in many ways seriously better - no waiting
lists) to the NHS.

You can get incapacity benefit, or an old age pension.
The old age pension is higher than that paid in the UK and has, over
the last 10 odd years, consistently risen above RPI (and therefore
consistently outpaced it's UK equivilant).

We may be "tax dodgers" (a lie for 99.9% of the people living here),
however much of what gets collected in tax actually benefits those
that live here, rather than lost in a sea of inefficiency and waste.

 

Eh? It costs £35 to see a GP [1]- Condor charge _way_ more than that
plus you have to sit on a boat for hours.
Plus no waiting lists, decent service etc etc.

[1] if you don't have private health cover

 

Because we have our own system.