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| Tourists to Britain Could be Forced to Prove They Have Health Insurance |
| 2010-03-01 |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #4 In the summer of 1976, my brother and sister and I were venturing into Great Britain, the land of our ancestors, via back-back, Brit-Rail Pass and a succession of youth hostels, and I actually did get sick (cold that turned into a horrible earache - a trip to the emergency room of a public hospital in Stirling, which wasn't all that awful, considering that it was a public hospital emergency room!) and then some kind of complication to it which necessitated a trip to a local doctor, in Lincoln. The doctor very reasonably pointed out that since I was from a country that didn't have universal public health care, he felt obliged to charge me for the office visit and treatment - a fee of $25 dollars, which we all thought was quite reasonable and perfectly logical, considering. They must have developed another flavor of crazy in the decades since then. Pity, that. |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2010-03-01 18:46 |
| #3 I recognize this is actually pretty bad. But one of the favorite rhetorical tricks of stinking smelly leftoid universal health care fanatics is the old "my wife/SO/slam-piece-of-the-week had a heart attack/aneurysm/herpes outbreak/hangnail while we were vacationing in Toronto/Montreal/London/Lyons/Berlin/Havana and the hospitals and care were *exquisite*, wonderful, really! We should It's usually countered by angry immigrants from those wonder-locales, if they happen to be in earshot. But the stinking freeriding leeches often seem to have had their eardrums surgically removed at the wonderhospitalen, and thus are incapable of hearing the outrage they leave in their wake. Thus, today, I feel a little twinge of shameful joy in the thought of the stinking leeches caught out by a sort of bureaucratic karma at last. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2010-03-01 16:38 |
| #2 Don't bother listing DoD TRICARE as your insurance policy. No one in Europe accepts it. Germany has long had this policy with regard to Local National Employment. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-03-01 09:09 |
| #1 So, if I have plenty of money, go to the UK, need medical care, and wish to pay for it out of pocket, that's a problem sufficient that I'm barred from entry? Every time I turn around, I experience another flavor of crazy. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2010-03-01 08:46 |