From top: John Wall and medical card entitlement for ‘Frontier Workers’
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Whilst The @HSELive were granting “Frontier Workers” & their dependents medical cards without a means test (as is their right under EU Regulations) Terminal #Cancer patients like myself have to beg, before being refused!
No deal #Brexit may have implications?#medicalcardscandal pic.twitter.com/iNNyIWOWy2— John Wall (@walls2) August 20, 2019
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I can go one better @walls2 My husband returned to college after he lost his job and qualified for a Back to Education Allowance which AUTOMATICALLY entitled him to a medical card just for being a student!!! What made this worse was that I was jumping through hoops…1/2
— Vicky Phelan (@PhelanVicky) August 20, 2019
…at the time as I was just after being diagnosed with cancer and had to appeal my application TWICE before I finally qualified for a medical card. I remember my husband’s card arriving in the post before I got mine and was confused. I rang to find out why my husband got one 2/3
— Vicky Phelan (@PhelanVicky) August 20, 2019
I eventually got a medical card after appealing twice but the effort it took to have to go through it and knowing that my husband had to do nothing for his one enraged me at the time #medicalcardscandal
— Vicky Phelan (@PhelanVicky) August 20, 2019
Under European Union Regulation [EU Regulation 1408/71] a frontier worker (cross-border worker) is entitled to sickness and maternity benefits in both the member states in which he/she is employed and the member state in which he/she resides.
In Ireland this means that a frontier worker (an individual who is living in the South but works in the North) is entitled to a medical card because in NI they are entitled to free care (NHS).
And today’s top #3 medical scandals
1. record number on trolleys for this time of year
2. 75 day waits for hard pressed patients who had to go to Northern Ireland for cataract ops to get reimbursed for fees which are often paid with credit union loans
3. the above
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Well for some .its better and better it’s getting .we’re to soft about time we started to shout