DCLUCIE Wrote:I couldn't help but be alarmed at the news that the UK are to close the agreement we have had for many many years with the Health Service in the UK. I seems to be coming in for 2010.

Could this be the biggest threat to visitor numbers?

http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/Health-sh...4557004.jp

Travel insurance cover is relatively cheap for the normal visitor, but normally exludes motorcycling over 125 without an additional premium.
However, what about the actual racers- will they have to pay apart from emergency initial treatment, or am I reading it wrong?

If that is the case then it may well be a major problem, as you can't as far as I am aware really fully insure for racing accidents, apart from combined insurance of America type of plans, which doe not cover the major costs of medical specialist treatment. There is the compulsory Acu race insurance, but will this be enough?

Oh well, I suppose the Uk government needs to raise the fund to buy up all those banks and building societies, so that the directors who made the mess can still get their quite frankly obscene bonuses regardless. Oh dear, am I getting even more cynical?