This article explores the interaction between EU movement of persons and the access to and financing of public healthcare in the UK, Ireland, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The article will show that particularly in a time of relative austerity and a seeming lack of cross-border solidarity, the non-discrimination obligations in the EU Treaties may encourage the Member States to cut back on tax-funded healthcare so as to not have to extend such care to nonnationals. It suggests that if the Member States cannot effectively rebut the persistent public concerns of ‘EU welfare tourism’ with statistics, it may be preferable for them to seek to address those fears at the EU level (by a re-coordination of responsibility for health care coverage) than to respond to them through domestic law (by increasing individual responsibility for health care costs).