Foreign visitors to UK must have private health insurance
Already the NHS Overseas Visitors’ Office is supposed to recoup health costs from overseas visitors but only 16% of the estimated £2b. annual costs is actually clawed back.
So how in reality will this new plan work? Will overworked A&E medics actually turn away sick but penniless patients? It is wrong to expect them to act as border staff.
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Hide AdOur country should insist on all foreign visitors having private health insurance which would be a condition of entry. This is the most effective and fairest way of dealing with the problem.
Paul Nuttall
UKIP North-West MEP