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@evoman3957 wrote:

 it's also open to a free for all by anybody and everybody who wants to come here for treatment. So it needs to be sorted out, because the way it's going it won't survive.

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"Health Tourism" doesn't really touch the sides of the overall NHS budget:

"To put these numbers in context, whether we are referring to £200 million (CCI’s estimate), £20 million (the Government’s official estimate) or £45 million (a figure calculated on the basis of the Government’s internal analysis), we’re talking about no more than 0.15% of the NHS’s overall budget of £104 billion."

https://fullfact.org/factchecks/cost_of_health_tourism_to_the_nhs-28866

."..What did come as a surprise, however, was another group of NHS users who should be paying for treatment, and that’s British expats.

While small in number – the figures the Department of Health uses assumes there may be 65,000 present in England on an average day – they cost health services more per head than anyone else.

Expats, this report suggests, cost £1,449 per head. Visitors here from outside the EEA who’ve been here for less than three months cost £1,000 less, at £449 per head.

Students from outside the EEA cost £713 per head, and migrants who’ve been here more than a year who have come from outside Europe cost £822 per head.

The expat cost is highest because their age tends to be greatest, and they therefore tend to require more complicated and lengthy healthcare."

http://blogs.channel4.com/factcheck/foreign-visitors-owe-nhs-2bn-factcheck/16194