Jimmy Squarefoot on the Isle of Man

Come April 1st 2010 the UK government is to end the reciprocal health agreement with the Isle of Man.

At least the date makes sense, what a joke.

I can picture the scene at the hospital during TT 2010. “I don’t care how fast you were going when you fell off your bike, you’re English and you don’t have any medical insurance so you can’t come in.”

The Steam Packet Company could do a roaring trade selling £10 travel insurance for 50 weeks a year and £250 travel insurance during the TT festival. “Don’t blame us mate, it’s supply and demand and out of our control.”

Ex-pats and Manx folk traveling to the UK will need some sort of medical travel insurance to cover any sort of emergency.

Of course, if you happen to be visiting the UK as a national from Anguila, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Barbados, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the British Virgin Islands, Croatia, the Falkland Islands, Georgia, Gibraltar, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Montserrat, New Zealand, Russia, St Helena, Serbia and Montenegro, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uzbekistan or the Ukraine and be unlucky enough to fall ill you don’t need to worry as reciprocal health agreements with these countries are to be maintained.

Manannan Mac Lir give me strength… Anyone got the number for Bernard Moffat?