Posted on 03/20/2012 3:52:34 PM PDT by wagglebee
Yes. Any visitor to the UK (anywhere in the UK) gets free healthcare if they need it, from a bandaid for a cut to having a heart attack/stroke or suffering a serious accident. The British taxpayer foots the bill.
Yes, as a British citizen and taxpayer, I pay for the NHS through my taxes and NI. A person on £25000 before tax will pay about £900-1000 a year to the NHS via taxes and NI. Thats about a sixth of total taxes taken at that salary level. A person earning that will make £19500-20000, so about £5-6K is taken off in tax and NI. And about £900-1000 of that 5-6k goes on the NHS.
I currently earn about £20000, so I probably pay about £750 a year to the NHS, and about 4-5k tax.
So you were referring to visitors in your prior post then. That makes more sense, because if you were trying to say that the healthcare is free in every instance I was going to call BS.
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