Boris Johnson defends charging foreign NHS staff fees for service even though 'they saved my life'

["Misfit"]

Boris Johnson defends charging foreign NHS staff fees for service even though 'they saved my life'

 

[RAPTOREX]

Hopeless, ineffectual cretin. He knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing. Which pretty much sums up this sad, sad country of ours. In 2020 anyway. And you don't have to look far, for the reason.
What a sick disgusting excuse for a human.

 

[BigCloud]

 

[harumph]

Totally right people coming over here should pay to access the NHS. There definitely needs to be an exemption to this if you're working for the NHS, at the bare minimum you'd expect a hefty staff discount as common across many workplaces. The only possible issue I see with this is if someone comes to work for the NHS with the knowledge they need an expensive treatment to game the system. I would think that's pretty damn rare, maybe a limit to the expense before the need to pay kicks in to counter this possibility?

 

[Phat Barstood]

Surely these workers are paying taxes and national insurance.He can fuck off...

 

[harumph]

Surely these workers are paying taxes and national insurance.He can fuck off...

Depends where you come from. Covers a lot of countries but not all.

"Employees from a country outside the EEA and Switzerland, or which does not have a RA or DCC agreement with the UK
These employees are exempt from paying UK National Insurance contributions for the first 52 weeks of their employment here provided that:

• they’re not ordinarily resident in the UK
• they normally work outside the UK for a foreign employer
• they’re sent to work in the UK for a time by that foreign employer
• when in the UK they continue to work for that employer"

 

[Phat Barstood]

So are these 'specials',brought in to cover during covid-19,if so they should get NHS treatment.I wasn't aware of NHS workers being shipped in to help.

 

[RAPTOREX]

Totally right people coming over here should pay to access the NHS. There definitely needs to be an exemption to this if you're working for the NHS, at the bare minimum you'd expect a hefty staff discount as common across many workplaces. The only possible issue I see with this is if someone comes to work for the NHS with the knowledge they need an expensive treatment to game the system. I would think that's pretty damn rare, maybe a limit to the expense before the need to pay kicks in to counter this possibility?

Tripe. Racism running rife. You imagine how loud he would scream if this were done to UK workers, in another country.

 

[Simon G]

Tripe. Racism running rife. You imagine how loud he would scream if this were done to UK workers, in another country.

I'm pretty sure it is 'done' to all UK workers abroad, I don't think we get free health care all over the world just because we do in the UK.

 

[Simon G]

Surely these workers are paying taxes and national insurance.He can fuck off...

That isn't the criteria though, it never has been. I think you are letting your dislike for one person cloud your judgement.

Do you think people that don't pay TAX and NI shouldn't have free access to the NHS?