Queens speech limited access to nhs for migrants

Chas, If you live in the USA, and, just say you are hit by a car, and taken to Hospital, the first thing they ask, is, “Are you Insured?.” If not, my understanding is that you get sent to a lesser hospital, where the treatment is not as good as it would have been, if you did have Insurance.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

My understanding is that insured or not, they cannot deny you life saving treatment, but they can still invoice you for it. Either way, medical bills are the number one cause of bankruptcy in the US.

Already to-day (D. Tel. 9th May) various medical heads are popping over the parapet to announce that no one should think that they are about to take on a new role of health policemen. Haven’t they got enough to do? No wonder A & E are stuffed to the brim. It is the only way for ‘sticking plaster’ tourists to see a quack – quick.

Well it has to be worth a try – it’s better than doing nothing. And don’t forget the dreaded Blair Border Agency has been scrapped. Time will tell as to whether the scrapping has been an improvement or not.

I think that this is less about the onus of charging and more about the vexed question of ‘health tourism’ and how to deter it by by publicising the imposition of an effective charging regime.

Well, that will work, won’t it ?

Surely better to make the possession of an elementary level of medical insurance a condition of entry to this country. Without it, you get sent back.

Given the noted efficiency of the Border Agency that should work well.

Admittedly it was a long time ago but I was an emergency patient in Arizona and was dealt with quickly and without questions. But probably because I was a visitor and would have had some form of accident insurance – it was so long ago I have forgotten. I am sure that within the EU and perhaps the Antipodes and Canada you would be treated without question.

Chas, If you live in the USA, and, just say you are hit by a car, and taken to Hospital, the first thing they ask, is, “Are you Insured?.” If not, my understanding is that you get sent to a lesser hospital, where the treatment is not as good as it would have been, if you did have Insurance.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

I haven’t read the speech and some limitations were widely expected. But surely it’s the same here as indeed in most other first world nations, emergencies are treated as such, no questions asked, until possibly afterwards. Some will slip through that net but as a drain on resources, it will be negligible, I would have thought.