5 Feb 2018 8:23 pm
The dotard just Tweets what he sees on his favorite show, FOX & Friends without bothering to verify it.
Trump thought the British were protesting their health service. They weren’t.
LONDON — President Trump took a swing at Britain’s beloved National Health Service on Monday, tweeting that Britons were marching in the streets because their universal health-care system was financially strapped and dysfunctional, and got a swift rebuke from the British prime minister.
But the thousands of Britons who took to the streets over the weekend were marching in support of the NHS and calling for greater government funding.
Trump's tweet about Britain’s universal health-care system — once said to be the closest thing that the British have to a national religion — provoked ire from across the political spectrum, including from British Prime Minister Theresa May.
A spokesman for May said that “the prime minister is proud of our NHS, that is free at the point of delivery.”
The spokesman said that funding “is at a record high and was prioritized in the budget with an extra 2.8 billion pounds.
In the recent Commonwealth Fund international survey, the NHS was rated the best in the world for a second time.”
Jeremy Hunt, Britain’s health secretary, said he is proud to hail from a country where people have coverage “no matter the size of their bank balance.”
Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn of the Labour Party said that Trump was “wrong,” adding: “People were marching because we love our NHS and hate what the Tories are doing to it.
Healthcare is a human right.”
The march was called “NHS in crisis: Fix it now” and was organized by the People’s Assembly and Health Campaigns Together.
Demonstrators carried placards that read: “NHS: More staff, more beds, more funds” and “Saving lives costs money, Saving money costs lives.”
Responding to Trump’s comments, the march organizers said they were campaigning against a U.S.-style health-care system that they said is “expensive, inefficient and unjust.”
It’s hard to overstate just how proud Britons are of their “free at the point of use” health-care system, established after World War II.
Some have pointed out that Britain spends a lower percentage of its GDP on health care than the United States does and that life expectancy is longer in the United Kingdom.
There is speculation that Trump’s tweet might have been inspired by a segment on the NHS by Fox News Channel, which the president frequently watches.
In fact, he followed up his tweet on the NHS by thanking Fox News for “exposing the truth.”
