Asylum seeker billed £10,000 for NHS maternity care ‘could only afford penny a month’
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/13/asylum-seeker-billed-10000-for-nhs-maternity-care-could-only-afford-penny-a-month
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Asylum seeker billed £10,000 for NHS maternity care ‘could only afford penny a month’
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/13/asylum-seeker-billed-10000-for-nhs-maternity-care-could-only-afford-penny-a-month
Posted by rejs7
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If the assylum benefits are calculated correctly as the bare minimum then a penny a month is what we’d expect.
This is all rather farcical, they either should be here and it’s provided or they shouldn’t be here and so never should have used the NHS.
So the story is that she claimed asylum, got free medical treatment, had children in the UK despite having no status to remain, incorrectly billed as she had an active asylum claim, then the bill was cancelled.
I’ve seen people with worthless asylum claims have multiple heart surgeries on the NHS. Meanwhile people who migrate legally pay large IHS fees.
Brilliant isn’t it. My treatment was cancelled as it was apparently unfair that I got medication and deemed that I could instead go private at the cost of £350 a month. All while paying 40+ % tax and everything sky rocketing in costs.
I absolutely love it here.
Should of charged the man who got her pregnant, takes two to make a baby.
Healthcare is care, not a business. This is laying the groundwork for Streeting and his ghoulish friends to privatise the NHS, with promises that “only the undeserving will pay.”
Access to healthcare is a fundamental human right.
Meanwhile my GP must be a figment of my imagination as I haven’t been able to contact one for years!
Strange ragebaity headline for a Guardian article on refugees.
lmao I ain’t read the article but she’s still here isn’t she?
She should be given the best treatment out nhs can offer, even if it costs us tax payers more, we must help people like her settle and procreate for the benefit of this country
I don’t have a problem with her getting it free. Immigrants who reproduce is what we want right?
We simply have to get these illegal migration numbers down to the thousands rather than 10s. It’s crippling many systems.
>”“I would like to propose repayment of £0.01p a month. I am embarrassed that I cannot offer greater contribution … even this will be a stretch. A requirement to pay more than this will put me under significant pressure to obtain money unlawfully.””.
This is one of those loud-part-quiet statements… if a requirement to pay 2p rather than 1p a month would force you into criminality then you’re admitting to already needing to fund your lifestyle through criminality. Great to know she’s been here for almost a decade funding her lifestyle through criminal activity.