Re: Doctors say it is Racist to charge NHS Health Tourists!

Indeed, and that is why you can compare the present risk of ebola coming to the UK with the risk of aids entering the UK in the past. And as you know, it did come to the UK, just because patients expected the free health care to offer a solution.

Re: Doctors say it is Racist to charge NHS Health Tourists!

Any so called asylum seeker who attempts to enter the UK via any EU country should be turned round at the border. Under the Dublin Convention they MUST apply at the first safe country they enter.

Illegal immigrants should be interned when detected until they assist in their return to where they belong. No assistance - no release from internment. Ever.

Better yet sub-contract the internment to some sub-Saharan third world country. The money it would cost would be less than keeping the burglars here and would motivate them to cooperate.

Otherwise compulsory medical insurance for all foreigners coming to OUR country.

Another big plus that will result from us kicking the horrible undemocratic corrupt EU into touch.

Re: Doctors say it is Racist to charge NHS Health Tourists!

I'd put those from countries with these horrible filth based diseases in quarantine just as we used to do with dogs.

6 months should do it, and paid for by themselves.

Re: Doctors say it is Racist to charge NHS Health Tourists!

We could of course send them over to the Netherlands for medical treatment and save the UK money that way

Re: Doctors say it is Racist to charge NHS Health Tourists!

There is no comparison whatsoever .
I have said it before but you must have missed it
Ebola is actually very hard to catch .
It is confined to a comparatively small part of Africa .

There has only EVER been one case and that was of a British nurse who was working with Ebola patients in Sierra Leone .

Of course once we start redirecting to the Netherlands even that tiny threat will disappear .

Re: Doctors say it is Racist to charge NHS Health Tourists!

Nah. The Netherlands obviously have all the problems they need -- and THEN some.

Re: Doctors say it is Racist to charge NHS Health Tourists!

Is it in their contracts to involve in politics and the policy of the NHS.

I do not expect doctors to be involved in administration such as charging those not eligible for free treatment.

Nor do I expect them to make political demands on such flimsy grounds.

Racist? Which particular race is being discriminated against?

Re: Doctors say it is Racist to charge NHS Health Tourists!

Doctors say there are important similarities — and differences — between HIV and Ebola; adding: We must be sure not to repeat the mistakes of the 1980s.

When America’s top disease prevention official compared Ebola to AIDS during a meeting of the World Bank in Washington, D.C. last week, he raised more than a few eyebrows.

“In the 30 years I've been working in public health, the only thing like this has been AIDS,”*said Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “We have to work now so this is not the world’s next AIDS.”

Reactions to his comment ranged from fear to anger. Some argued that the United States should no longer allow travelers from Africa into the country lest the disease spread. Others were offended, noting that it took more than one dead patient before the U.S. government responded to HIV/AIDS in the 1980s and '90s.

President Ronald*Reagan did not speak to the nation*about AIDS until six years after the first recorded deaths,*according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

In fact, the Ebola virus and HIV*are*similar, said Dr. Amesh Adalja, a representative of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). A top official at a large U.S. AIDS services organization agreed, saying that to deny the similarities is to stigmatize Ebola in much the way the U.S. did with AIDS.

HIV and Ebola are both*viruses. Both emerged in Africa, Adalja noted, neither has a vaccine, and both are fatal if left untreated. Both are carried by host animals and then transmitted to humans, and both may have made that transition when hunters ate bush meat.

Re: Doctors say it is Racist to charge NHS Health Tourists!

That is why we throw you out of the EU: no more free movement of people from the UK.
You can keep every immigrant succeeding in reaching the UK.

Re: Doctors say it is Racist to charge NHS Health Tourists!

What makes you think privatisation will make healthcare in this country affordable?

They are starting to go the other way :

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/clinical...038426.article