The NHS would be in a good state if it wasn't for all the health-poor ****s and schemies from places like Lanarkshire clogging up waiting rooms.
I fell off a bar in Thailand last year and nearly cut my thumb off with the bottle of Chang I was holding. Now BUPA say they won't insure my whole left arm - what is a man to do about this?
I was in Italy a couple of years ago - the village I was in was mostly made up of Italian immigrants to Paisley/Glasgow who had moved back home in their old age - I was pretty shocked that most of them travelled back to the RAH or the Southern General for their hospital visits. They were all UK passport holders so my question would be - can they still do this? (I'm assuming yes). I also read this morning that "health tourism" costs the UK £12m annually which is a pretty big number (even if that's less than 0.01% of the NHS budget, it's still a big ****ing number).
Pre-existing condition clause... you could ask if there is a way to pay a loaded premium to remove the exclusion or look at another provider. See if you can have MHD underwriting if its a PMI policy?
That's only 1/3rd of what the Monarchy costs us, and we're actually helping humans with the money. Bargain.
Don't have a problem with health tourism myself. If I was seriously ill and the best treatment was in Germany I'd goto Germany. You do whats best for you, **** borders, they're just imaginary lines.
Well I guess the thing is that you could live in a cheap tax territory and not pay for health care in your tax bill, then piggyback on another high tax state's health care system - thereby being a bit of a cheat.
I don't really give a **** to be honest. It's only frowned upon because the big wigs at Westminster say so. And they're all fannies so.
I read some thing ages ago saying that alcohol accounted for 12% of the NHS budget . Going after something that appears to take up 0.01% but is a modern cause-celebre seems a bit like electioneering.
If you add up all the amounts that things like alcohol, drugs, obesity etc. are meant to cost the NHS it actually adds up to more than the actual annual budget. In other words, it's greatly exaggerated pish. All they do is add up all the costs of, say, supposed alcohol-related illnesses and lump them together. Not all people with cirrhosis are alcoholics for example.
