http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7421045.stm
I read this story on the BBC news site today, it raised one of those good ol’ moral dilemas. This woman has HIV and will most likely die if returned to her home country. She has already been treated here in the UK several times on our NHS at tax payers cost, despite being an illegal immigrant.
Now how do you weigh a persons life against your own cash?
The fact of the matter is that millions of pounds of tax payers money is spent treating people who have come to the UK for that sole reason, the NHS is a very large, complex and overall easily abused system.
The problem is if you treat one person, why not treat them all?
Every year we send back thousands of people who have come to this country to abuse our system, as nice as you make it sound they come here illegally simply to take what they want.
Others of course come here because they want to live in Britain, to contribute and to become part of our society. There is a clear, if unmeasurable difference between the two.
How can we keep out those who are abusing the country and let in those who want to join England?
And how do you turn someone away who so desperately needs medical attention, whatever their skin colour, creed or religion?
While it would be nice to treat the world we simply cannot afford it, hell we can hardly afford to treat ourselves with the NHS’s drug boards regularly cutting important medication and treatments from what we get on the NHS.
I have to admit it is a subject matter I would not want to be the policy owner on. Do you bankrupt the country or stand to be hit by claims of racism and hatred?
Maybe we should look more to other countries, ones that protect their own heritage?
Ones that are not afraid to stand and say, this is us, if you can contribute you can join but do not expect our country to bend to your will.
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