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Originally Posted by jfman
I was only joking - it’s a line used about the false belief there’s an amount of health tourism to the UK by EU nationals.
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1) Seeing as it is FACT that there's a large amount of non-EU health tourism, doesn't seem unreasonable to suppose there might be some that is EU based.
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A LEADING cancer specialist believes one in every 20 patients he treated as a consultant at London’s Royal Marsden Hospital was a health tourist.
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One estimate shows only about 16 per cent of charges due from overseas visitors are ever recovered.
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2) The NHS isn't that bothered about recovering costs from the EU or anywhere else for that matter.
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But all this debate has certainly focused on just how ineffective the NHS is at reclaiming costs and so the extra visa levy and new tweaks to the rules are all designed to try and encourage better efforts to recover money spent on foreigners
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3) The newer rules for ex-pats appear to have only come in a little over a year ago(Oct 2017).
EU report on Health tourism
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For international tourism, the EU28 is still by far the most visited region in the world, with
40% of all global international arrivals.
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The proportions of EU residents travelling to another EU country for treatment.
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International departure shares range from below 12% in Romania, Spain, Portugal and France, to above
60% in Belgium and Malta, and 95% in Luxembourg.
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The UK, Italy, Germany, Belgium and Croatia were the most frequently involved
countries in the case studies we identified for health tourism.
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