"Health Care: Amid the news crush of the week, it would have been easy to miss President Trump's tweet blasting Britain's National Health Service.
As with everything else he does or says, Trump managed to get people riled up.
This time, it was for telling the truth.On Monday, Trump tweeted that "The Democrats are pushing for Universal HealthCare while thousands of people are marching in the UK because their U system is going broke and not working. Dems want to greatly raise taxes for really bad and non-personal medical care. No thanks!"
The usual suspects expressed shock and horror that Trump would say such a thing, including outraged members of the British government, who said that the protesters love the NHS, they just want the government to spend more money on it.
The New York Times even devoted 1,000 words "fact-checking" Trump's 41-word tweet, but ended up admitting that in Britain, "patients often wait months, even for essential procedures" and that "some patients wait up to 12 hours in emergency wards before being seen." Isn't that what Trump was saying?
In any case, the problems at the NHS are far worse than the Times lets on.
Just a few months ago, in fact, the British Red Cross described conditions in U.K. hospitals as a "humanitarian crisis."
The president of the Royal College of Medicine recently said the emergency care system was "on its knees."...
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