Thread: NHS madness - health tourist's £145k bill not chased
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Old 31-08-2015, 13:35   #9
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Re: NHS madness - health tourist's £145k bill not chased
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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu View Post
this what makes my blood boil. We have people coming from abroad - and by law we have to treat them.

And yet the Brtitsh government allows this to happen. It makes me sick, to the stomach.
We have to draw the line.

I always remember when l was in hospital, There was a family in the next bed to me, they could not speak English, and insited on PRIVATE TREATMENT, as they did not want to be in the same ward as us.

They were told it would cost £3.000 for the treatement for the night. They accepted this, and within 30 minutes they were gone.

If people want treatement - they MUST pay up front. If not then they get the same treatment as us.

IF, they have treatment, they must not be allowed to leave the country until this bill was paid.

I understand that everything is now linked - National Insurance, Tax and various other things. I may be wrong.

EVERYONE FROM OVERSEAS knows that we have FREE medical care in Britain
I think you'll find that Jeremy Hunt is on the case.

This is the hospital's fault, not the Government's. It beggars belief that with the number of bureaucrats in the NHS, not one of them can find the time or be motivated to chase up such a bill.

The answer is to de-centralise the NHS and let the badly managed hospitals fail so that they can be replaced by well run hospitals who are motivated to spend money wisely - treating the patients!!

The black holes in too many hospital budgets are a disgrace, IMHO.
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