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Originally Posted by Hugh
There are approximately 66 million people in the UK and 456 million people in the rest of the EU, so your comparison that their 3 million here versus our 1 million there doesn’t really add up, proportionally...
Also, France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, and Finland have been rated higher than the U.K. for healthcare.
Our older U.K. citizens living abroad, as you state, as pensioners will not be paying local income tax, and as older people, on average, require more medical care, they will in fact be more likely to have a negative effect on the local economies.
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I think it goes to show that a lot more people want to come to Britain than the other way round. I obtained these figures from a Government minister, but Google says:
There are 3.6 million people from the EU living here:
https://www.the3million.org.uk
And this says that there are 1.3 million British people living in the EU:
https://fullfact.org/europe/how-many...-eu-countries/
AIUI, pensioners who have settled in Spain pay 24% of their income in tax (there are no personal allowances or deductions), so they will be paying something even on a modest income. Also, unless exempt, they pay €157 a month (up from €60 a month for those under 65) and 100% of any prescription costs.
I suppose it depends on what is wrong with them and what is available with the Spanish healthcare system. If it's too expensive, they are still entitled to use the UK NHS. If any EU nationals need expensive healthcare whilst in the UK, I doubt that they could be attended to by their home country; the whole thing is so very one sided.