Are You Shocked At The Cost To The Nhs Of Treating Visitors Here

[ladybirder]

and what we receive from other countries when they treat our Nationals? No wonder the NHS is facing a £2bn deficit and rising. Just scroll down to the figures if you cab to read all of it.

/// If the UK leaves the EU, would I lose free access to member states’ public
health services when I travel to Europe?
Britain has reciprocal health benefits with those European countries that have comparable national health services, e.g., Germany, France, Holland, etc. There is no reason why such reciprocal arrangements would not continue on a bilateral basis when we leave the EU. Many other European countries simply do not have a public health service comparable to ours; to use their health services, British citizens have either to pay or to take out private health insurance.
Under the existing arrangements EU states are supposed to reimburse each other for the public health services used by their citizens. Even so Britain loses out.
Department of Health figures for 2015 were posted on the website of Labour MP John
Mann on 2nd March 2016. His website states: A Parliamentary Question from John Mann MP has revealed that the UK paid out £674 million to European countries for their health costs last year – but received only £49 million in return. The huge discrepancy was revealed in a Department for Health response to the Bassetlaw MP. Notable figures include:

• UK pays France £147,685,772 – France pays UK £6,730,292
• UK pays Germany £25,873,954 – Germany pays UK £2,189,664
• UK pays Italy £7,304,484 – Italy pays UK £1,510,850
• UK pays Poland £4,336,701 – Poland pays UK £1,523,402
• UK pays Spain £223,290,021 – Spain pays UK £3,412,338

John Mann MP commented: “Sorting this scandal out in itself would transform the financial situation of the NHS. This is a shambolic state of affairs and we are being played for fools. This is money that should directly be going into the NHS and it would make a huge annual difference to its finances.” \\\

[ChillDoubt]

I'm not shocked in the slightest. I see on a regular basis Poles, Albanians, Portuguese and Bulgarians attending hospital to have their children born by Caesarean section, often with an interpreter in tow.
It too will have a massive influence on how I vote come the 23rd of June.

[EDDIE51]

Togo so one more on the list of 'new agreements to be agreed' if we leave then?

[jourdain2]

So it's a biggish list - so what EDDIE?

[Togo]

//Togo so one more on the list of 'new agreements to be agreed' if we leave then?//

Yes please, Its about time we got weaving and started actually running the Country for the benefit of all, not just the smug boys in the bubble. That means out, and it means out for anyone who isn't up to the job, and ignoring the insidious wailing lies of the ABC.