Looking to emigrate to country with cheap healthcare

onomatopoeia99

Your problem with moving to another country remains finding one that will give you an indefinite visa to live there.  You need to examine that before even thinking about healthcare costs.

Emmia

UKNeil said:

Thanks for everyone's replies. Apologies for not logging on sooner (health not been great and my cat died). I paid private treatment for my procedure here in the UK (of which i had 2 whilst waiting for NHS treatment here) and this and being unable to work has exhausted my savings. My mortgage is paid off which is why i am looking to move to another country. The thing is the health problem i have is very difficult to heal and extremely painful. Those commenting here about whinging really should calm down and think before they post. Trust me - if you had the pain i experience you would totally understand.

Just because you live in another country / have treatment there doesn't mean the outcome will be any different from the NHS or private treatment in the UK. 

If you have no savings you'll struggle to show that you can support yourself overseas unless you sell your home in the UK to fund this... If you're selling anyway to fund that move, you could also sell and downsize / relocate to a cheaper area in the UK to be able to pay to have the treatment privately here...

GDB2222

UKNeil said:

Thanks for everyone's replies. Apologies for not logging on sooner (health not been great and my cat died). I paid private treatment for my procedure here in the UK (of which i had 2 whilst waiting for NHS treatment here) and this and being unable to work has exhausted my savings. My mortgage is paid off which is why i am looking to move to another country. The thing is the health problem i have is very difficult to heal and extremely painful. Those commenting here about whinging really should calm down and think before they post. Trust me - if you had the pain i experience you would totally understand.

Sorry to hear about your problems, but unfortunately emigrating is unlikely to help. You'd be looking for a country with incredibly low cost of living, but with very advanced healthcare that is free or very, very cheap.  

Ath_Wat

GDB2222 said:

UKNeil said:

Thanks for everyone's replies. Apologies for not logging on sooner (health not been great and my cat died). I paid private treatment for my procedure here in the UK (of which i had 2 whilst waiting for NHS treatment here) and this and being unable to work has exhausted my savings. My mortgage is paid off which is why i am looking to move to another country. The thing is the health problem i have is very difficult to heal and extremely painful. Those commenting here about whinging really should calm down and think before they post. Trust me - if you had the pain i experience you would totally understand.

Sorry to hear about your problems, but unfortunately emigrating is unlikely to help. You'd be looking for a country with incredibly low cost of living, but with very advanced healthcare that is free or very, very cheap.  

And if such a country existed, the waiting list for living in it would be extraordinarily long.

Sncjw

Also some countries require to get health checks as.part of visa requirements to see if you will drain the healthcare or not. 

asingledad

pinkshoes said:

I'm feeling this post is just one of those whingy the-uk-is-falling-apart-broken-britain style posts though, because the cost of emigrating is HUGE, so given this is a minor operation, then clearly the moving costs would be way more than paying private.

Having lived somewhere that had a UK immigrant population (and from several other countries around the world) people really underestimate the costs and risks of emigration.

For medical treatment I think the best suggestion so far is to go abroad for the treatment. There are lots of countries that have excellent private medicine far cheaper than the UK. I know people who have been treated in India, and in an Indian run hospital in the region.

ikcdab

UKNeil said:

Hi,

Due to the collapse of the NHS and being nearly 2 years on an NHS waiting list I am looking for suggestions of countries to emigrate to that have good reasonably priced healthcare. Any suggestions welcome. Its hopefully only a minor operation but one that might re-occur. I absolutely love my country and will be devastated to leave it but I can no longer live in a country where i am unable to work due to lack of healthcare.

To be honest, this whole post is an insult to the NHS which has NOT collapsed despite the pressures on it. Going to another country and sponging off of their taxpayers is immoral and wrong.  If your really worried, get a loan or use a credit card and go private.  You post reminds me of those people who are quick to criticise everybody else but won't do simple things to help themselves.

Titus_Wadd

I've seen lovely purpose-built housing blocks awaiting newly arrived occupants on TV...in Rwanda 

Voyager2002

There is a basic confusion running through this discussion. Firstly, there are many countries where private treatment costs much less than in the UK. If you want treatment in Cuba, India, Malaysia... all you need is a tourist visa and a credit card. That would be one option for the OP. In case repeated follow-up care would be necessary after the operation, a long-stay tourist visa (easy for India) and/or lots of air tickets should be included in the calculation.

That, of course, is a very different question from finding somewhere in the world where healthcare would be free to the OP. Portugal is probably the only realistic option for this: public healthcare there seems to be rather better than the NHS (depending on how you measure it) and is available to long-term residents. A British citizen can become a long-term resident so long as they have a secure income of at least Euro 1,000 per month. If the OP receives a state pension and/or could let a property in the UK that is likely to generate the required income.

(There are other gateways to long-term residency in Portugal, such as buying and restoring a house in the country...)

sheramber

The  OP  states he is unable to work due to his condition so that would rule out state pension.