THIS is from the British Daily Mail.
Newsflash! Donald Trump was 110% correct about the very serious, violent mooslim problems in Sweden, AND he is absolutely 110% correct about the British NHS being an abject failure.
Truth = when you have "free," government-provided health coverage, you have NO health care.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-5365315/STEPHEN-GLOVER-Donald-Trump-point-NHS-failings.html
The British are convinced the NHS is the best healthcare system known to man. It is the ultimate sacred cow - to be worshipped and revered and, of course, regularly fed with great wads of cash.
So when a few days ago Donald Trump fired off a tweet about the NHS "going broke and not working" everyone jumped down his throat. He could hardly have provoked greater consternation had he taken a swipe at our own dear Queen.
Downing Street declared that Theresa May was "proud" of the NHS. The chief executive of NHS England said the American President had "got the wrong end of the stick." Jeremy Corbyn tweeted that he was "wrong."
Silly old Trump - up a gum tree again, and passing judgment on what he doesn't understand. That was the general tenor of the response from his politer critics.
But hang on a moment. Hasn't it been pretty clear during the past few weeks that the NHS is in a serious crisis? And if not "broke," isn't it widely accepted - even by the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt - that it is short of money?
What the trigger-happy President said was not, in fact, very far from Jeremy Corbyn's frequent assertions that the NHS stands urgently in need of more injections of cash on top of those it has already received. ...
Last week, a deeply shaming report was published by The Lancet medical journal. It analysed the records of 37.5 million patients with 18 of the most common cancers, and compared survival rates in 71 countries. Not all of them have data for every form of cancer, so in practice the pool is smaller.
What this monumental report shockingly revealed is that British survival rates for most cancers lag behind the rest of the developed world, and in some cases behind much poorer countries. ...
Ah, some will say, the UK is doing so badly because it spends less on its health service than many other countries. This isn't true. Countries with much smaller health budgets outperform us in many cancer treatments. ...
But if the health service of which we are so proud is producing markedly less good outcomes than much less well-funded health services in poorer countries, doesn't that tell us something about the shortcomings of the NHS? ...
Most French people would be aghast at the notion that a four-hour wait in Accident and Emergency is viewed in Britain as a kind of gold standard. They would be shocked to learn that patients in this country often wait months for an operation. ...
Why do we cling so myopically to the creaking NHS, where in recent weeks sick patients have been made to wait for hours on trolleys in corridors - scenes that would be deemed incredible in France or, indeed, Germany? ...
The NHS is very far from perfect. It could be reformed and improved. And it's not just a question of sloshing in more money. These are truths our politicians dare not discuss, and we blinkered British will not confront.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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