Submitted on Thursday 3rd March 2016
Published on Monday 7th March 2016
Current status: Closed
Closed: Wednesday 7th September 2016
Signatures: 19
Demand a public inquiry into how EU medical expenses have been going unclaimed.
New figures show the NHS is paying out millions more for EU healthcare than it is claiming back from EU countries.Described as a "scandalous failure",it has emerged that the UK pays more than £670m to EU countries for Brits' healthcare abroad, while claiming back less than £50m from the EU.
MP John Mann, who obtained the figures in a parliamentary question, told Sky News that "logically the UK should be receiving more than it pays out".
He estimates "the real cost is a billion pounds a year".
Mr Mann told Sky News: "Other countries are recharging and we are not.
"The figures are astonishing - we are paying them 70 times more than they are paying us.
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