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A SICK JOKE
14th July 1978, Page 60
14th July 1978
Page 60
Page 60, 14th July 1978
— A SICK JOKE
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A well-meaning European Communities Commission reminds Britons that it can be expensive to be taken ill while abroad, but Community citizens who fall sick in an EEC state "are entitled . . . to receive medical care . . . on the same terms as the people whose country they are visiting".
A joker in the Commission adds "This does not mean that treatment will always be free, as under the British National Health Service.
Having recently paid, as a National Health patient, £5 for seven minutes work on my teeth and £65 for two pairs of common or garden spectacles, after being bled white by Mr Healey, I regard this as a sick joke,