The government has thrown a potential £500m Brexit lifeline to 180,000 British pensioners in EU countries outside the UK who rely on the NHS to pay for their healthcare.
They do anyway, so it’s not exactly a massive policy change...? All EU countries apply to the country of origin to be reimbursed for health care.
I’m assuming the nhs won’t cover retired ehh citizens in Britain afterwards either, which would be fair.
This headline is extremely misleading. It applies only to people who have started treatment (or applied for it) before exit. I inferred that any new illness will not be paid for. Am I wrong? What of people currently in good health?
As long as the eu pays for theirs here that’s fine
We already do pay so why is this news?
I guess that will just come out of the £350 million a week extra funding that will be going to the NHS when we leave the EU. Simples.
But most pensioners hope to live for more than 12 months! What happens next? The minister expects not to be office by then.
For those there now or even those that move after Brexit
The ever-expanding fallout of stupid decisions.
Why of competing demands on the UK Taxpayers is the health care costs of expats considered important?
And if they returned to the UK, the UK would pay the cost, big deal, what is trying to be said here?