Friday, May 10, 2013
Meanwhile - in the U.K. - "Health Tourists"
When those loopholes get discovered, the race is on...
In the U.K. Daily Mail, Sue Reid writes about the U.K.'s National Health Service and how thousands of foreigners are getting fraudulent (free) treatment:
"One telling response to Professor Thomas’s concerns came from an unnamed NHS ‘Doctor E’ who said he works at a hospital near Heathrow airport.
‘If you ask anybody who works in the NHS they will tell you the same thing,’ he wrote. ‘Every single week I see people who have been flown in from all over the world with a great variety of extremely serious health problems. Many of these people had to be wheel-chaired on to the plane because they were too unwell to walk on board.’
He said he had recently admitted two foreign patients to intensive care who were both reported to be ‘semi-conscious’ at the overseas airport when they boarded the plane for Britain.
‘We often have our intensive care unit full of patients without NHS numbers who are there for weeks or months at a time with no means or intention to pay. These people do not have credit cards or health insurance,’ he added."