European Health Insurance Card

[Robmac]

I hope so - which is my entire point. Be healthily sceptical about ALL advice and keep your wits about you!

More and more so in this day and age I am afraid!

 

[John H]

You should try it.

Still eating the pies?

 

[maureenandtom]

No, John. Not his second, nor his third. Nor at all. Germani2 has not, in this thread, said that people should seek private insurance.

Germani2 deserves an apology from you and so does the site for your attempt to mislead it.

"And you should know all about misquoting people!" No, John, never knowingly or deliberately done it. However, I learn from the master.

 

[Channa]

I think this is a useful thread, to put one on ones guard, and I see no harm in Maureenandtoms or germanis postings.

whilst refusal of a EHIC may be illegal, it doesnt help anyone who needs urgent attention and I would hope the government are conversing with their continental counterparts to seek remedy.

Germani spared you technical jargon, but basic principals of any insurance in this country at least are "non contributory clauses" and " subrogation" check it out if it interest you without expanding here.

I see the situation best explained by use of two analogies.

EHIC is similar to act only insurance indemnifies the minimum for more comprehensive cover, then you need travel insurance.

If you sell your motorhome, would you release it without knowing who was paying you and the funds were non returnable ? perhaps that is the attiude of the hospitals, ?

channa

 

[Deleted member 32]

I can't understand why somebody who is only trying to provide information is getting so much hassle. In my case when I had to call the emergency services to get help & was taken to a hospital I had no idea if we would have to pay or not, but in an emergency it's not the most important thing on your mind.

In future we would hopefully be more aware, one thing we now do is make a mental note of where we are, trying to get the ambulance to find us when we only had a rough idea of where we were. Giving GPS co-ordinates didn't help that much, thanks to the local police who found us then gave the ambulance directions.

 

[John H]

No, John. Not his second, nor his third. Nor at all. Germani2 has not, in this thread, said that people should seek private insurance.

Germani2 deserves an apology from you and so does the site for your attempt to mislead it.

"And you should know all about misquoting people!" No, John, never knowingly or deliberately done it. However, I learn from the master.

I refer you to his second post and my reply to it. No attempt to mislead on my behalf. As for you not misquoting - well, you have misrepresented me big-time on this thread in your attempt to pretend that I am doing something illegal - but that is what you normally do, so I am not surprised.

 

[John H]

What an idiotic response, you are up against it obviously before you have resorted to cryptic playground posts. Like your verbal fencing partner you wear blinkers when it suits your own ends.

So it is you! welcome back

 

[John H]

:lol-053:

Pies? Back? Are you covering your trail for any particular reason?

You are wrong accusing Gemanic2 and are wriggling like a stuck pig. All your long winded nonsense has gone now so you revert to the playground just like your friend the Hickey of The Express clone.

:lol-053:

 

[maureenandtom]

I refer you to his second post and my reply to it. No attempt to mislead on my behalf. As for you not misquoting - well, you have misrepresented me big-time on this thread in your attempt to pretend that I am doing something illegal - but that is what you normally do, so I am not surprised.

Done so. It provides no clarification. I could reproduce it. I know you'd like me to do so.

You were and are a politician. You will not let go this particular bone. I recognise your intention is to make as much confusion as possible; Let's be clear. Germani2 has not, at least in this thread, reacted with any recommendation that anyone here should seek private insurance. Not in his second post and not in any of his posts.

Your technique doesn't vary. You won't get tired of it. You won't get tired because your intention was never to help along this thread; it was to disrupt it. As it so often is. You don't believe the things you say - you want only to provoke a reaction. You will misquote somebody and wait smugly for the reaction. You hope to get the thread down to the level of, "you said, I said, you said". It's not clever. Or where I come from they would say you are indeed clever; they'd say, "He's a bit clever, that one". But we know what they really mean, don't we?

I invite Mods and Admin to look again at your conduct in this thread. You are a troll. Mostly your activities are amusing; this time you have wounded somebody to the point where he might not post again. And this poster has an "in" with, and has knowledge of, the insurance industry. He could be a loss to us. You have already lost us some valuable posters, one springs to mind right now and there are others.

You make an assertion that I have pretended that you are doing something illegal. It's there, above. Nonsense. But you already know that, don't you? It's your intention only to make me deny it. While I'm doing that, the point of the thread gets forgotten. You're a bit clever, John. A bit too clever. Like they'd say where I come from.

 

[John H]

Done so. It provides no clarification. I could reproduce it. I know you'd like me to do so.

You were and are a politician. You will not let go this particular bone. I recognise your intention is to make as much confusion as possible; Let's be clear. Germani2 has not, at least in this thread, reacted with any recommendation that anyone here should seek private insurance. Not in his second post and not in any of his posts.

Your technique doesn't vary. You won't get tired of it. You won't get tired because your intention was never to help along this thread; it was to disrupt it. As it so often is. You don't believe the things you say - you want only to provoke a reaction. You will misquote somebody and wait smugly for the reaction. You hope to get the thread down to the level of, "you said, I said, you said". It's not clever. Or where I come from they would say you are indeed clever; they'd say, "He's a bit clever, that one". But we know what they really mean, don't we?

I invite Mods and Admin to look again at your conduct in this thread. You are a troll. Mostly your activities are amusing; this time you have wounded somebody to the point where he might not post again. And this poster has an "in" with, and has knowledge of, the insurance industry. He could be a loss to us. You have already lost us some valuable posters, one springs to mind right now and there are others.

You make an assertion that I have pretended that you are doing something illegal. It's there, above. Nonsense. But you already know that, don't you? It's your intention only to make me deny it. While I'm doing that, the point of the thread gets forgotten. You're a bit clever, John. A bit too clever. Like they'd say where I come from.

I am used to your nonsense insults so I won't bother to respond to them. I will simply say that I have made the point I wished to make. Those who want to see will see and hopefully benefit from it; those who don't, won't.

 

[John H]

You have intimidated a person who was giving us the benefit of his/her insider knowledge. This was under the pretence of being some kind of press hound.

It was pathetic bullying of someone who expressed unwillingness to join in your stupid game. You were on an ego trip and when your ego was punctured by some irrefutable truths you reacted like a child. That was petulant and , well, childish.

If you wish to let information go unchallenged then that is up to you. When I see something that doesn't look right, I question it. If the person who posted the original statement then throws his toys out of the pram instead of addressing the question then that tells me something. I could equally (as could Ken) say that we were intimidated by nonsense claims and even accusations of acting illegally but if you are sure of your argument then you don't let things like that divert you.

Btw, I am intrigued - when did I ever pretend to be "some kind of press hound"?

 

[John H]

................. I can't be arsed just now.

Well, there's something we can both agree on!