> 1.) Are you a human being? [ ] No -- Sorry! [ ] Yes -- Great, you're covered.
Is this actually true? Does the NHS (or any so-called universal government healthcare programs) really cover literally any human?
Is this actually true? Does the NHS (or any so-called universal government healthcare programs) really cover literally any human?
TLDR: all ordinary UK residents, non-ordinary-residents who've been living legally in the UK for >12 months, EU citizens with EHIC cards, and various other sets of people.
Treatment at A&E (accident & emergency), family planning & HIV tests, and for certain communicable diseases is always free no matter who you are, for practical reasons (no time to ask who you are in A&E before they treat you, no requirement to ask who you are for family planning & HIV tests for confidentiality reasons, and for communicable diseases you want to minimise their spreading).
Pretty damn close.
This will likely be challenged (along with many other tenets of it) shortly though, as there have been other resident alien cases regarding civil rights (voting, guns) wherein the decisions pretty routinely fell on the side of the alien, whether they were here legally or not.