Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Jun 2019
Could the NHS be part of a US-UK trade deal?
5 June 2019 - Donald Trump sparked concern about the health service’s future but the reality is more complex.
Donald Trump made a number of contentious statements during his visit to Britain this week, but his assertion that the UK’s National Health Service would be “on the table” in discussions about any post-Brexit US-UK trade agreement was by far the most controversial.
Britons see their taxpayer-funded, free-at-the-point-of-use health system not just as a source of medical treatment but as a vital expression of national values of equity and compassion. The US health system, in contrast, is reviled as its antithesis because it links treatment to the ability to pay.
