Viewpoint wrote:Pyrpolizer wrote:Viewpoint wrote:Why do you think the GCs have had to provide free healthcare? its because all TCs are considered to be earning below the poverty line, a decision taken by the south to show they also cater for a community they claim to represent and who have citizenship.
How ironic you yourself have fallen into the trap by exposing how your true democracy and human rights can easily be manipulated to the benefit of certain people who live in specific areas of the island, now you are trying to backtrack and save face.
As for the standard of healthcare in the south compared to the north we also have GCs crossing to the north for healthcare albeit not free at our Near East Hospital, this proves the families who need medical care will go where ever they can get the best treatment for the best price according to their financial means. No doubt there are some great doctors in the south just as there are in the USA UK or Turkey but when you add to this free its a no contest decision. Now do you get it?
VP please stop it. RoC had absolutely no obligation to provide anything to the Kibrislis, who live in the occupied. They did this at a time we had enough money to show some support for you and our good will. Now things have changed, there are no money most government allowances have been cut off to the Cypriots who live here and pay taxes.At the moment they only apply a small visiting fee at Government hospitals, about 10 Euros, the medicines and the medical care that costs thousands still remains free.
HOWEVER there is a new law proposal that I am absolutely certain will p[ass either this month or next February after the elections that says
that In order to be eligible for free medical care at the Government hospitals
a)You must have paid social insurance for the past 3 years
b)You must have submitted income tax forms for the the same period
c)Your income must not exceed a certain value.
In short all Kibrislis who live in the occupied will be out, same with foreign workers who live here for less than 3 years, same with the Kypreoi who don't pay their taxes.
Yep this is how Democracy works. And this is how it should.
So what you are saying is that "RoC" citizens that reside in the North and have always resided there who cannot pay taxes direct to the "RoC", live below the poverty line cannot benefit from healthcare in the south paid or free?
Do you know expats in the UK who live in the TRNC can benefit from free healthcare in the UK?
Sounds like the "RoC" will be paying a lot more for expenisve court cases and compensation when they are sued for discrimination on the basis of residency, although they claim to represent the whole island benefiting accordingly.
Interesting times ahead, all we need is one death of a TC at the hands of the "true democratic" health system in the south and the reprecussions that follow...way to go "RoC".
I don't think that is entirely true.
I know someone who is a TC living in the north and is also British citizen. She came to London to have her child there, but was asked to pay £3,500 pounds towards the cost, and when she said, "but last time you did not charge me anything", she was then told "OK, that would now cost you £7,000 pounds". She was literally on the next flight back to the north before the date she could not fly due to her pregnancy. Can you explain this to me?