Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-09-25-Speech-4-035"

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lpv:document identification number	"en.20080925.4.4-035"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Gunnar Hökmark2
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lpv:translated text	"Mr President, this issue is about the right of the individual to seek healthcare where good care is available. The representative of the Group of the European United Left, Eva-Britt Svensson, said here earlier today that it will lead to healthcare tourism. I would like to inform her that, when sick people seek care, it is because they are in pain, they are suffering, they are damaged, and they need care. It is not about tourism. Ultimately, this question is about the power of bureaucracy versus the right of the individual. It is about whether old frontiers should be used as a barrier to people seeking healthcare or whether the openness of today’s Europe should be used as a means for people throughout Europe to get the best healthcare they can. It was illuminating to hear what the Group of the Left thinks but, since I have the representative of the Social Democrats, Jan Andersson, in front of me and he is right after me on the speakers’ list, it would be interesting to hear from him whether he shares Eva-Britt Svensson’s view that sick people who seek care abroad are engaging in healthcare tourism. Does he, like her, want to erect barriers of various kinds or will you, will the Social Democrats, work to ensure that we have the greatest possible openness, in which patients do not need to ask permission from the authorities to get healthcare? This question, Jan Andersson, is about Social Europe. It is not about how individual decision-makers should determine what others can do, but how the individual can get the best healthcare. Over to you, Jan Andersson."@en1
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