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- Type 1
With typical hyperbole and disregard for accuracy, the Daily Mail published a headline earlier this month claiming that MPs had ‘caved in’ to ‘left-wing doctors and scrap[ped] plans to stop ‘health tourists’ coming to Britain for treatment they're not entitled to’. Making no reference to the well documented harm caused by the policy, the piece focused instead on the alleged cost of so called ‘health tourists’ to the NHS, repeating a favourite refrain of a Government and media adept at directing the anger at enforced austerity towards migrants.
No mention either of Elfreda Spencer, Nasar Khan, Albert Thompson, Kelemua Mulat, Esayas Welday, Pauline Pennant, Beatrice, Saloum, Bhavani Espathi, and countless others who have died after being denied care or made destitute after receiving huge medical bills. Meanwhile the ‘left-wing doctors’ the Daily Mail reviles are in fact supported by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, who recently called for the policy to be scrapped. This follows evidence from the British Medical Association, the Equality and Human Rights Commission and Doctors of the Worldthat demonstrate the harm these policies are causing, and calling into question the shaky economic rationale behind the policy.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ou...ighting-back-against-the-hostile-environment/
No mention either of Elfreda Spencer, Nasar Khan, Albert Thompson, Kelemua Mulat, Esayas Welday, Pauline Pennant, Beatrice, Saloum, Bhavani Espathi, and countless others who have died after being denied care or made destitute after receiving huge medical bills. Meanwhile the ‘left-wing doctors’ the Daily Mail reviles are in fact supported by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, who recently called for the policy to be scrapped. This follows evidence from the British Medical Association, the Equality and Human Rights Commission and Doctors of the Worldthat demonstrate the harm these policies are causing, and calling into question the shaky economic rationale behind the policy.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ou...ighting-back-against-the-hostile-environment/
