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worn thumbs":1ffpm42y said:RogerS":1ffpm42y said:Anyone picked up on the unexpected implication of bloody Brexit? ow we're going to lose that magic E111 card, it really puts the mockers on leaving the UK for a European holiday. All travel insurance that I've seen excludes Covid-19 now. So it's a lottery going away now. If it's a seven day break then perhaps not too bad unless you pick it up the first day you get there and have a fast severe reaction. How are you going to pay for your hospital care or repatriation ? Or you might already be infected before you go out but not know it.
The longer you extend your holiday, the worse the odds become.
Surely that wasn't a surprise.I well remember an elderly joiner telling me how disgusted he was about foreigners coming here and being treated by the NHS-the subtext was that he was contributing to the cost.He also believed that we wouldn't get treated in other countries,not that he had ever been to any.It gave me a good deal of pleasure to show him an E111 and explain how it worked and now I share your sadness that it won't work for very much longer.The greater worry is that the Covid virus looks like being rather hard to eradicate and will be an intrusion into our lives for a very long time,maybe forever.We need a recovery plan and a part of it will have to map out a way to keep us off crowded public transport.Maybe its time to encourage businesses to disperse themselves from London and to reinvigorate some of the more remote towns.We ought to have learned that with a decent internet connection a good deal of work can be done outside a central office.We also have plenty of communities that would benefit from some high earning jobs being created in their midst.I suppose it will need a mindset that isn't limited to doing things the way we have always done them because thats the way we have always done them.
I personally feel right or wrong that the E111 will continue to work as before, because it applies to ALL OF THEM as well, or has that slipped your mind that we have millions of europeans working here, that retain thier eurozone nationalities?
I'm sure even the most spiteful of eurozone MEP will understand "cut your nose off to spite your face" isn't a great career move.
Some will argue moreUK holidaymakers go to the eurozone each year than the other direction, but a hella lot come here to work, and more to visit london and other places - to abolish the "tit for tat" of the E111 would be very foolish on both sides.
Will it affect our travel insurance? Probably - any excuse to put the premiums up - but will it mean a USA style "you have to pay £100,000 for your care and repatriation"?
Absolutely not - for a dozen "knock on" effect reasons if that happened.
It's scaremongering for the gullible.