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Originally Posted by Anypermitedroute
I think we are forgetting that the vast vast majority of these people will be coming here to work and legally working so will be paying for these facilities via NI contributions like EVERYONE ELSE. You will also find that the 99% of them will thankfully never ever need to use them either.
We will also need to move on from the motion that the NHS is the best thing in the world. It's great but it ain't the best and that includes a few countries in Europe
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It's not the best but is is by far the best when it comes to easily accessible free services which are open to all whether they've paid their taxes or not and regardless of their legal status. Incidentally how do you know hoe many illegals are working in the UK when HMG clearly doesn't, these people aren't lving on air so they're either working or stealing. The UK is still one of the easiest places to live under the radar due primarily to the absence of ID cards which are widely required to access services etc. in Europe.
Some close friends of ours emigrated to France a few years ago for family reasons (he's French and she's Polish) after lving here for well over a decade. Even now they're always complaining about how hard it is to get anything done and how much paperwork/ID is required for services which are far easier to access in the UK. It's not the quality of their health service it's the complexity of it all.
As for 99% of migrant will never use the NHS? I'd love to know where that figure comes from because I think it's tosh. For a start, those who settle and have children here will inevitably use it along with a whole lot of other services.