Fact Check: Trump’s Criticism of U.K.’s National Health Service
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Fact Check: Trump’s Criticism of U.K.’s National Health Service
Public support for a single-payer system — one in which the government pays medical bills — has been growing,
and politicians on the left like Bernie Sanders have urged American to "join every industrialized country and guarantee health care to all Americans as a right." (The United States does have a single-payer system, Medicare, for Americans over 65.)
We just haven’t got enough hospitals, we haven’t got enough doctors, we haven’t got enough facilities." Mr. Farage also warned
that if the United States introduced a universal health care system, it would become "politically impossible" to return to a private system or reduce the benefits.
5, 2018
LONDON — In a tweet on Monday, President Trump claimed
that thousands of people in Britain were marching because their country’s National Health Service was "going broke and not working," and that Democrats pushing for universal health care in the United States were pursuing a similar failed model.
Mr. Trump may have had a point — that many British people are unhappy with their National Health Service — but not one that supports his overall view.
Many Americans — Democrats and Republicans alike — talk about support for "universal health care," but
that term usually refers to universal health insurance coverage, and there are competing visions of how to achieve that goal.
Before the Affordable Care Act was enacted in 2010, President Barack Obama expressed sympathy for the single-payer approach,
but he ultimately went for a complex system of tax credits and legislative and spending changes to expand insurance coverage — bringing down the number of uninsured to 28 million in 2016, from more than 48 million in 2010.
Public support for a single-payer system — one in which the government pays medical bills — has been growing,
and politicians on the left like Bernie Sanders have urged American to "join every industrialized country and guarantee health care to all Americans as a right." (The United States does have a single-payer system, Medicare, for Americans over 65.)
We just haven’t got enough hospitals, we haven’t got enough doctors, we haven’t got enough facilities." Mr. Farage also warned
that if the United States introduced a universal health care system, it would become "politically impossible" to return to a private system or reduce the benefits.
5, 2018
LONDON — In a tweet on Monday, President Trump claimed
that thousands of people in Britain were marching because their country’s National Health Service was "going broke and not working," and that Democrats pushing for universal health care in the United States were pursuing a similar failed model.
Mr. Trump may have had a point — that many British people are unhappy with their National Health Service — but not one that supports his overall view.
Many Americans — Democrats and Republicans alike — talk about support for "universal health care," but
that term usually refers to universal health insurance coverage, and there are competing visions of how to achieve that goal.
Before the Affordable Care Act was enacted in 2010, President Barack Obama expressed sympathy for the single-payer approach,
but he ultimately went for a complex system of tax credits and legislative and spending changes to expand insurance coverage — bringing down the number of uninsured to 28 million in 2016, from more than 48 million in 2010.