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What should a doctor do if they see someone in critical conditions on the street?

Abide to their oath and help?

Or ask them first if they are permanent residents with a house and a job in the Netherlands?

According to the fascist sociopaths that currently run the games in The Hague, it should be the latter.

It’s common for migrants on work permits who lose their job to lose their health insurance too.

The Netherlands has a broken system where, as a migrant, you can only get a rental contract if you have an employment contract. And you can only get a health insurance if you have a permanent residence. That means that a lot of the burden of providing people with housing and healthcare falls on employers and expat agencies rather than the government. Deadlocks are very common. And if one of those pieces fall, the others are likely to follow.

Instead of fixing their broken system, the Dutch government is notching up its cynicism and showing its ugliest face - if you’re a migrant without a job who gets sick here, you should go back to your country to seek for care.

And it’s not that the system was abused either. In the whole country only 5000 migrants are currently uninsured after losing their job. A fund of a couple of millions has been allocated for them, something that a rich Western country can totally afford. But of course evil is always banal and it always feasts on the pain of the most vulnerable.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/11/homeless-migrant-workers-should-go-home-for-healthcare-minister/