Our SGK payment for Dec is due, Mick apparently not entitled now, so we have decided not to pour any more money into the scheme.
I got his 2 BP meds, Cholesterol, Baby Aspirin for 45TL in chemist recently. If they stop these over the counter drugs, what then.
We have paid 7680TL into SGK, which included a back payment of 2400T L(due to misinformation form all authorities, police, British Consulate, passport police) for something we never had!!! Having added 3mthly check ups/med costs, it totals nearly 8,000TL!!!! Many of our friends have had brilliant ops, treatment during SGK, so I am not knocking the scheme. It has been a safety blanket, for us expats. Hence wanting to participate.
In all honesty was never meant to be for Brits. Turkey and the UK has never had any reciprocal health care agreement. This has been a total debacle from start to finish. Mick is now saying " I told you so"...... as he never wanted to join. We have a contingency fund and I wished to God I had the above money to add to it.
I am entitled to re apply, in my own right, which will be only for a period of 17mths. Shall I bother, YOK YOK YOK. Can we get private medical insurance at our age? What will happen if we have a heart attack, stroke or major accident?
!!!! and not able get back to the UK?
Yes we shall get treated, but at what cost....
Our choice to live in Turkey for our retirement, we could have stayed in the UK and spent our hard earned cash, owning one leg, of a racehorse!!!! Why has our government let us down so badly, in this very important issue. We have worked hard, paid NHS all our lives, bought our houses, set up our businesses and surely entitled to health care, somewhere!!! lol, without having to tell lies, to register with a UK Doctor.
Do any of the 50,000 Turks who live in UK, get refused NHS medical treatment. I dont think so. How would Turkey react, if they had to be sent home............We are not asking for free medical care, just the right to be on SGK and pay into the system.
Sorry guys RANT OVER, please email Jeremy Hunt, Minister of Health, with your concerns, it may make a difference, to the outcome of talks, planned soon.