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"We chose in the final vote to vote in favour of the European Parliament’s own-initiative report on patient mobility. We did so because we think that the text of the resolution as a whole expresses our view of healthcare. There are, however, parts of the European Parliament’s resolution that give expression to certain supranational ambitions, unacceptable to ourselves, in the area of healthcare.
Each country is responsible for its inhabitants’ healthcare. When the latter are temporarily in another EEA country, their European Health Card entitles them to unplanned treatment there. That is an arrangement of which we approve and that appears to operate well.
People are entitled to influence the way in which their tax money is used. If patients are freely to be able to choose healthcare in another Member State and have it paid for by their own country’s taxpayers, that principle is threatened. We fear, moreover, that such an arrangement would be very expensive and favour wealthy patients at the expense of the most vulnerable ones. We also believe that issues concerned with healthcare should not be dealt with in the draft Services Directive."@en1
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