Seems alarmist to me. It implies that suddenly some people (expat Europeans?) in the UK would suddenly lose their health coverage, but from what I can tell, it simply means that the EU mandate for health care would no longer apply to the UK, but since the NHS was running for decades before they entered the EEC, I see no reason to actively suspect it will fall shortly after Brexit.
Only insofar as it’s part of EU law. The NHS will continue to provide…starved of cash, starved of staffing, starved of expertise, and finally slayed when Trump’s America devours Britain whole.
You know, precisely what was said would happen by Vote Leave.
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A formal guarantee in EU law would cease to apply, but the various pre-existing Acts of Parliament relating to the NHS would obviously continue, unless and until Parliament decides otherwise. It’s just that with no EU membership there’d be no additional route through the EU to legal enforcement against Parliament of what we already take as a fundamental political given anyway.
But as Malden Capell says, who knows what this shambles of a government might end up agreeing to by way of trade agreements and ISDS mechanisms.
Seems a bit alarmist to me, lots of bad things happen straight awy in the event of no-deal Brexit, but don’t see how this is one of them.
I do see in the longer term, the UK government being forced to sign post-Brexit trade deals with the US that forces them to open up the UK health market to US health care companies, which effectively ends the NHS.
Well that would be one way to address the immigration issue.
The article seems like groundless hysteria. The foundational principles of the NHS were deeply entrenched in the UK since before the EU existed. The real risk is that foolishness like Brexit could undermine the British economy, potentially leading to funding challenges for public services including the NHS.