Well Russ, I've been on the NHS website. Don't know what site you were on. The EHIC card entitles UK citizens to the same treatment in an EEA country as a resident of that country. So you are lying aren't you? If I have a heart attack in Romania I get the same state treatment as any other citizen of that country. It's all on the website.

In some EEA countries there are patient charges - like we have - for medicines, prosthesis, dentistry etc etc but these apply equally to us as they do to local citizens. UK citizens may be entitled to recover those in-country charges from the NHS on return to the UK.

We are entitled, for instance to go to Cyprus and have our teeth fixed (so long as we don't need dentures) at a flat-cost of EUR2 per visit. Bargain. A Cypriot coming here would have to pay our high NHS dentistry charges then recover the cost from his or her own government on return.

PROOF NHS WEBSITE

More to the point, we have reciprocal healthcare arrangements with a lot of non EEA countries.

Proof is on the link above. Below is a list of reciprocating countries.

Russ, how can it be that absolutley everything you ever say turns out to be untrue. Even on random pot-luck I'd have thought you might occasionally stumble upon a fact or two.

List of Non-EEA countries that have reciprocal healthcare arrangements with the UK: A-J
Anguila
Armenia
Australia
Azerbaijan
Barbados
Belarus
Bosnia and Herzegovina
British Virgin Islands
Croatia
Falkland Islands
Georgia
Gibraltar
Isle of Man

List of Non-EEA countries that have reciprocal healthcare arrangements with the UK: K-Z
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Macedonia
Moldova
Montserrat
New Zealand
Russia
St Helena
Serbia and Montenegro
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
Uzbekistan
Ukraine