Thanks Maggie

That is the main problem, there are people arriving here every day from all over the world with God knows what diseases.

These diseases left unchecked can spread, like the story I mentioned about the 2 year old girl with pulmonary TB, which is passed on from one person to another. Some TB isn't, but surely we should be re-introducing the BCG to counteract the chance of our children catching it.

We had virtually got rid of TB, now it is back wilth a vengeance - along with other diseases that are expensive to treat.

Why should the British taxpayer have to fund treatment for people just arriving here? Or living here for years and passing on their disease to innocent British people?

A health check on anyone proposing to live here should be a MUST for the authorities.

We cannot afford to keep treating people for HIV, Aids, Hepatitis and TB when they haven't made any contribution to the system.

We wouldn't be allowed that if we left this country and discovered we had those problems, so WHY are we picking up the tab for the worlds problems by paying for foreigners health care?

We have enough problems of our own with cancer, alzheimers etc., where CHARITIES have to pay for hospices etc., rather than rely on Government funding.

I know this, because this happened to my family, and I get regular newsletters asking for donations.

Our NHS should be for OUR people. It is after all called the NATIONAL health service, not the WORLD health service.

If foreigners need to use the system as an emergency, well that cannot be avoided, but for continuation of treatment/care, they should be obliged to pay - upfront - so they can't do a runner when the bills land on the doormat.

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