Should there be access to cross-border healthcare? Posted on July 2nd
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‘Of course healthcare access should be available across borders, so long as the recipient can afford to pay the full price! No more sponging. [Just-Gossiping], London’ So if you were in Greece and broke your leg, you’d be happy paying for it to be fixed? What if it’s more serious, say you’re in a car crash? Do you have £30k lying around for the surgery bill? I don’t.
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Will this also mean that if I live in another EU country for more than 6 months of the year I’ll be able to come back to the UK to get the treatment I’ve been paying for for the last 40 years, and not be denied treatment as can happen now?
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The NHS is one of the better systems - but not the best. I lived in the UK for 10 years. Comparing it to the Irish system - it is far superior. However - I also think there are +’s and -’s to open health markets. Plus - Fast Treatment, Centres of Excellence (technical ability), Ability to compare Health system efficiencies. Minus - Admin/Fees, Reduced local services, Someone having to travel from a remote village to say Poland and be away from their families at a time when they really need them.
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I foresee a lot of people traveling to Poland very soon.
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“This must be absolute hell for pro-EU liberals….in direct opposition to their beloved NHS - the so-called envy of western civilisation. I shall look forward to how they quirm out of this one!” Duncan Jeffery, London, United Kingdom If you or any of your recommenders could explain how the right to free healthcare anywhere in the EU is in opposition to the NHS you might get answer. Dan Dover Easy. This increase choice like private medicine which Alan Johnson says undermines the NHS
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More NHS fraud anyone ? But the ECJ’s ruling not only effect British citizens treatment abroad , but also covers how the NHS delivers services to us in the UK.
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The government should spend the money improving the NHS here not subsidising the health systems of other countries. It is an admission of failure that they cannot meet the needs of people in this country
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For the amount of money we pay in NI and taxes, we should have THE best health care, but we do not. Political point scoring, target setting and interference gets in the way, making the NHS a bureaucratic nightmare for those who work in the NHS. One week they are given one target and agenda, the following week another. All these targets falls to the person on the front line, trying to saves lives, but they can’t do the job because another politician wants another target. Hopeless.
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More choice is good but it’s a shame only the better off will be able to afford to travel to get it.
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With any luck this will force racist New Labour to stop their anti English Apartheid policies where English taxpayers provide Scots with better healthcare than we get.
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Try living in the developing world!
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I have experience of the health system in Cuba. Half an hour after discovering I had an allergic rash I was able to see a Doctor. There was no need for an appointment, no need to register with a Doctor before treatment and no queue when I got there. I was charged about 12 pounds and gave me some anti-histamines. Half an hour later I was cured !!! Why I am expected to fork out thousands of pounds a year in taxation for a completely useless NHS I cannot understand.
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Opening up the EU to free cross-border heathcare might take the heat off the NHS… In many EU countries, and especially in France, healthcare is a lot better than it is in the NHS.
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Anything that allows patients to escape the dreadful NHS and get world class healthcare should be encouraged. I am fortunate to have real healthcare through insurance. I can’t see why those who do not have access to real, non-NHS healthcare here shouldn’t be able to use the facilities in those EU states which take healthcare seriously and don’t have substandard socialised medicine, rationing and killer hospitals.
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It dosen’t sound very efficient to me. The patient will be re-imbursed the amount the treatment would have cost in their own country, but what about the costs of administering the arrangement? That is money that could be spent directly on actual healthcare instead of more pointless admin tasks.
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