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The UK charges £400 per year per person when applying for an immigrant visa. Gives you access to the NHS, for what it’s worth. Personally given a choice I woul
by nindalf 7y ago
The UK charges £400 per year per person when applying for an immigrant visa. Gives you access to the NHS, for what it’s worth.
Personally given a choice I would rather not have paid that because the NHS hasn’t been very helpful to me.
- adrianN 7y agoThe point of socialized healthcare is that you pay even if you don't need it, so that other people can use it.
- squarefoot 7y agoThis, and say one day you need some serious surgery that costs 3 times what you paid in taxes. Socialized healthcare could cover this up to a certain point and nobody would come to you with a bill afterwards. To me it's the best approximation of "sharing health" a civilized country could come with, though some degree of empathy is required to fully understand its value.
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- pjc50 7y agoYes. However, only immigrants have to pay the £400 "NHS surcharge"; they are also paying for it through tax and national insurance. The government figured out that it could impose all manner of arbitrary charges on immigrants because they can't vote.
- collyw 7y agoTo be fair no one asked them to go to the UK. I can't vote in the country I live in because i am a foreigner, but it is my choice to be there, and I prefer it to my home country.
- _-___________-_ 7y agoIt's quite possible, even likely in fact, that someone asked them to go to the UK.
- collyw 7y agoIf you are talking about skilled individuals, then they probably are in decent paid jobs so £400 isn't a great deal to them.
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