NHS ID?
By David Vance On March 4th, 2013The root cause of all of this messing about is the fact that remain anchored in the EU.
Britons could have to carry an ‘entitlement card’ to access free NHS care as part of a crackdown on health tourists, it emerged yesterday.
Oh really?
David Cameron is considering plans to restrict free healthcare for immigrants to those who have lived here for more than a year, amid fears the cash-strapped NHS has become the ‘Global Health Service’. Reforms under discussion could mean immigrants having to wait six months or even a year before being granted habitual residency and therefore hospital care. But MPs say the scheme can only work if those entitled to free care can prove it. This would involve them presenting a card at the point of treatment.
Wonder if the card frauds see an angle here?
However, the idea could spark civil liberty concerns akin to the opposition to Labour’s plans to impose an identity card. And any plans to change the habitual residency test could be controversial. The European Commission is already unhappy that the UK has imposed such a test to prevent immigrants gaining access to all benefits and would be likely to oppose a plan to extend the test to entitlement to NHS care.
Exactly and the EU law trumps OUR law. So this is MORE flag waving by Cameron and will come to NOTHING.
Bureaucrats really do want those ID cards, don’t they? The idea that someone, somewhere, is not completely logged and recorded by the state terrifies them.
In this technological age you would think we old have progressed beyond cards. They are so easily lost/stolen.
Cards are kind of a no-brainer.
I have private insurance here ( Blue Cross ) and everyone in this massive private system ( or any of their private competitors in every state ) has always had cards for their members.
Do you guys have anything serious to be worried about?
“Do you guys have anything serious to be worried about?”
Yeah, ID cards. They’re a foreign idea, tools of authoritarian states. Not British at all.
An eligibility card will make it easier to tell who is a valid user and who is not.
The British ATW types now have in their wallets credit cards, bank ATM cards.
Because the credit card companies want to know who is running up the charges, and the banks want to know that the right person is taking money out. Identical principle.
Some of you guys have been scarred for life by too many black and white movies where some guy with a fake German accent asks for ” your papers please ”
Have it your way. Let the ineligible use the NHS.
An NHS member card would not be the same as a ” national ID card “
It would be the camel’s nose.
Maybe if the state didn’t allow immigrants to flood here in the first place, we wouldn’t have to be deprived – yet again – of our liberties?
An ID to access a benefit is no infringement on anything.
You may not like it, which you have a right to do, but your liberties would not be impacted one way or the other.
I have a Drivers license, which is a de facto ID in this country. It would be absurd to say that this has infringed any liberty one iota.
And then it’ll be another ID card for that government service, and then another, and then “Ah well, we may as well combine them all into one “Citizen’s ID Card”.
No way.
That’s the type of ” no surrender / no negotiation on any point ” argument used by the NRA dead enders.
Good luck with that.