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Did any one watch the bbc last night called "Hospital" it dealt with foreigner's coming to Britain to have "free" medical care . One highlight was the Nigerian woman who had 4 kids ,it has been in national press also. I did not know that a guy was employed by the hospital to chase the money.
To cut short: the thing is she ran up a bill half a million pounds £500 thousands. This was fro her and the babies, Next was a young guy who when told he had to pay ( he had 2 stones in his kidney's)the guy asked how did he come to Britain? He smirked and said how do you think in the back of a lorry,i have no money,papers, p/port etc:: then laughed! Later he vanished i dont know if he had an operation(i dont think he did) Next up was a woman#s sister from the philippines she had a 4xbypass operation £60 thousand he asked her sister could she pay anything,reply :: I'm a poor o.a.p. im on my own and have just had to re-mortgage her house and she has no money coming from there. Finally a old bloke from turkey his daughter offered and signed but after the "OP" they vanished before anyone could try and collect money!

Now reading this i do not want any one to think i had an axe to grind i have not. But all those case's last night not a single one of them had an insurance policy. ( When we go away on our holidays they cram down on us to take insurance cover out) No not them they come here and they kinda expect to have treatment. The reason i brought this topic up is because they are costing the N.H.S. over £ 100 million a year up to date they have retrieved £4.1 million it helps but i feel sorry that our worker's/taxpayers are footing the bill, And all what is needed is for the government to introduce a bill to make it law that when these turn up at our hospitals they should have to submit a credit card ,if they don't them i'm afraid they should be turned away , to add if it were law then have a publicity campaign warning them before they set off for Britain . This is just one of many loopholes that could help our beloved N.H.S.