Why your taxes will rise sharply and your families standard of living will fall

[BrilloPad]

Children are the future though

How is anyone of breeding age in this country supposed to afford one except through going on benefits?

[xoggoth]

Health tourism is what it says, it is not the full health cost of migrants, including legals, to the NHS. 60% of all new HIV cases in 2009 were Sub Saharan Africans. Getting on for a £1bn for that alone.

[FatLazyContractor]

How is anyone of breeding age in this country supposed to afford one except through going on benefits?

AYCOTBAC?

[DimPrawn]

"And a leading cancer specialist said no healthcare system could cope with the strain the NHS was put under by treating migrants"

Which leading cancer specialist was it that felt so strongly as to make a statement like this, but not strong enough to put their name against it? oh was it....Professor Angus Dalgleish?

"Professor Angus Dalgleish, of St George’s, University of London, who stood in last year's General Election for the UK Independence Party, told The Sun....."

Hmm...well he would wouldn't he? So they used the same source, who is politically motivated by his beliefs to make such statements, to create a story to look like it had several sources...

Picking out specific instances of mis management is easy - but the facts are that the numbers are far, far less than are banded about by UKIP etc: Reality Check: 'Health tourism' under spotlight - BBC News

Oh the BBC, pro-immigration leftist propaganda outlet.

[NotAllThere]

The author of the BBC article is David Gregory-Kumar. He has a PhD in Physics so I would expect at least a modicum of rigour in his reports.

Why your taxes will rise sharply and your families standard of living will fall...

...if we allow this abuse to continue?
...if we stay in the EU?
...if we leave the EU?
...if we don't execute all illegal immigrants on sight?
...if DimPrawn keeps posting nonsensical gibberish?

What point are you trying to make here? Or are you just rattling the cages of the Daily Mail readers and swivvel-eyed loonies?

btw - out of the entire budget of the NHS, how much is taken by health tourists, in percentage terms?

[DimPrawn]

...if we allow this abuse to continue?
...if we stay in the EU?
...if we leave the EU?
...if we don't execute all illegal immigrants on sight?
...if DimPrawn keeps posting nonsensical gibberish?

What point are you trying to make here? Or are you just rattling the cages of the Daily Mail readers and swivvel-eyed loonies?

btw - out of the entire budget of the NHS, how much is taken by health tourists, in percentage terms?

Since when does posting on CUK have to have a point?

Are you new here?

[BrilloPad]

...if we allow this abuse to continue?
...if we stay in the EU?
...if we leave the EU?
...if we don't execute all illegal immigrants on sight?
...if DimPrawn keeps posting nonsensical gibberish?

What point are you trying to make here? Or are you just rattling the cages of the Daily Mail readers and swivvel-eyed loonies?

btw - out of the entire budget of the NHS, how much is taken by health tourists, in percentage terms?

And how much is DP's house worth?

[BrilloPad]

Since when does posting on CUK have to have a point?

Are you new here?

I thought the point was to pass time while in a boring contract?

[sirja]

How come in this era, with all the technology available it's still so difficult to verify a patients residence status? This is done in other countries. Basically the situation should be similar to the US, over there if you've got no health insurance you only get the very basic service and then it's out the door. We could have something similar here, either you prove your supposed to be here(Supply your NHS Number for example) or it's basic ward for you and out the door.

[FatLazyContractor]

btw - out of the entire budget of the NHS, how much is taken by health tourists, in percentage terms?

And what if that money is spent on a citizen in need?

What about the money dished out in foreign aid?

How about reading AtW's threads on how the gideon is performing colonoscopy without using anesthetic?

and all those questions ....