Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-04-23-Speech-4-044"
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"Mr President, a great deal of work has been done to ensure that people who are sick get the treatment they need, wherever they are, whoever they are.
Unfortunately, a great deal of work has also been done to ensure that they do not get that help. In this directive, prior authorisation by health authorities, rather than medical diagnosis, cuts out patients’ rights. It puts us back where we started. Prior authorisation is the reason patients went to the European Court in the first place, and the Court’s judgments are the reason we are here today with a directive.
Now we are back where we started: death by geography will remain the rule. Health authorities, like those in my own country, Ireland, will again be able to deny authorisation to travel for treatment under this directive, just as they do under the current E112 that we set out to improve."@en1
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