'We feel insulted': migrant health workers on PM's refusal to scrap NHS surcharge

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Fee for care and health workers from outside the European Economic Area to rise to £624 a year in October

Overseas health and care workers on the coronavirus frontline reacted with fury on Wednesday after Boris Johnson refused to exempt them from the NHS surcharge, insisting that it was “the right way forward”.

 

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This is really really wrong - on all possible levels

NO MORE HAND TO MOUTH. NO MORE CREDIT DEBT. EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO SAFETY SAVINGS.

If they're that insulted they know where the door is.

Can you get quotes from the two foreign nurses that looked after BorisJohnson that would help highlight this shameful state of affairs.

Everybody's insulted, offended or oppressed these days.

João Pedro was playing at home when he was shot. Taken by the State, his family was left without news until now, and his body was found at IML. Another young black man murdered. How long will we continue to lose João Pedros from this country? JoaoPedroPresente

£2,500 is a fair price for health care for a family of four. 15 years ago in Germany, I was a foreign worker and my wife and I paid over €7000 a year for our family of four.

Equality and an Equal Society is pure fantasy. There will just be an eternal clang of relentless victimhood. Please stop this Socio Experiment now and lets go back to the way we were.

You mean to tell me that a nationalized health care system is underfunded despite being given 10% of the UKs GDP to operate? That Is WILD

Surely they knew the terms when they came

Can builders get free houses ?

if you don't like it then go back to your home country

More than 100,000 staff vacancies in the NHS during a pandemic and the Tories are charging an extra tax on health workers. Essentially penalising them. Another suicidal move on our behalf by the Tories.

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