Health Tourism - woman has 5 babies on the NHS

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AIBU to think that this woman is taking the bloody piss?

www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3673011/Nigerian-mum-Bimbo-Ayelabola-flew-into-Britain-and-had-quins-on-the-NHS.html

I very much doubt she will be sent back. Who is paying her legal fees is what I would like to know?

Are we a soft touch or just a lovely compassionate country with enough resources for all?

It's In Sunday times (although that refers to article in sun with an interview). She didn't know she was expecting 5 -also is planning to go home but bit Yeats as babies are too frail.

That should say not yet - predicitve text

I know that she won't be able to afford it, so as a Nigerian citizen the Nigerian Government should be billed.

They did that last week to a kuwait family on the itv baby hospital show and their government funded the stay as they were on holiday when baby arrived very early

Its a story in the Sun. The OP read THE SUN and commented on a "story" within it. Therefore the OP has no point. They read the Sun, openly admitted it and commented on its contents. People should surely know better?

Journalists scan all the papers looking for potential stories.

Refusing to talk about something because the Sun wrote a story about it is as foolish as thinking you can take anything in the Sun at face value.

Journalist do scan all the papers, but the ones that are any good know the difference between news and the ususal scare-mongering, racist twaddle peddled by rags like the sun, daily mail etc. I don't think the OP read the Sun as part of a journalistic quest - I think they read it as a way to get "news". I therefore think they are a twonk.

Its not a race issue though, its about someone taking advantage of the NHS. I am sure that she is not the only one, would be good to know the stats for health tourism in the UK. I think there was a documentary about it a while back, from what i heard it happens a lot.

If a person living in the UK has 5 children it is expected that this will be paid for on the NHS. If she needed IVF to concieve those 5 children then some of this help will be paid for on the NHS and this will not make it into the Sun, regardless of whether that person has ever paid a penny into the NHS or not.

The Sun is focusing on ONE case of ONE person - they are not presenting a balanced report on health tourism. They are picking a "sensational" example of health tourism knowing that it will cause outrage amongst its readers. Perhaps it is just a co-incidence that the health tourism anecdote they have selected focuses on a black, african woman who now "needs to stay in this country and have her 5 black children supported when white kids can't even afford..whatever".

You know and the Sun know that will be the reaction from a large proportion of its readers You are entirely correct that it would "be good to know the stats on helath tourism", but then the Sun doesnt bother to report those does it?

I say make her sell her babies so she can pay.

Honestly, I wonder if what Sun readers really really want is a return to public floggings and possibly hangings too.

somethingwitty- are you seriously saying that in full possession of a British education and able to speak the language and find your way around the system, you have not in 22 years been able to find enough work to raise the funds to pay even a private rental property or a housing association type mortgage? Or do you just feel that as a UK citizen you are "entitled" to a council house? My best guess is that your claim to one is not very strong, which is why you still do not have one.

That is not what people are saying metal her government should pick up the tab

I'm referring to the sentiment that articles like that emanate, piglet. The bloody scrounging foreigners that make the Sun froth in the mouth.

I have just read she is being given a 7 bedroom house in Belgravia, £60k a year in benefits, governement subsidised childcare, weekly Waitrose vouchers and is in talks to have her own reality show on e4 so I have totally changed my mind and think she should be sent back where she came from this instant.

So if this was a white British woman who had just given birth to quins in the US without insurance do you think our government would pick up the tab?

Nope. The woman would be deported along with her children when a plane would carry them (which as some people have pointed out may be hard to find). She could try to dodge the medical bills by never returning to the US again.

I suspect, once the smoke and outrage clears it will be much the same in this case. The quins will get her onto the front page of The Sun, but her legal representative has his/her work cut out in the present climate.

I draw the line on the Waitrose vouchers, damn it!

where's the froth in the mouth emoticon?

ooh we need one! [froth] doesnt seem to work!

would you say that's political correctness gone mad? Cause I would!

Where will it end??! Where will it all end?!?

If she is selling them Metal, I'll take two please.
They are exceptionally cute.
Instead of people wingeing about this, can't people be pleased that she had five healthy, beautiful babies.
It's going to be bloody hard for her wherever she lives.

Angelina will take a couple...... . I like the one at the end though - bags that one

so it's all sorted then!