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https://able2know.org/topic/355218-2053#post-6590850

“Actually, it was a demonstration supporting the NHS.”

That nonesense.

Your necks are so stiff against a very simple truth because it lends a little credence to something Trump said.

Fighting so ridiculously against clear facts make your actual points weaker.

Exactly. This is NOT a celebration their great health care system.

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Bernie Sanders’ single-payer bill, “Medicare for All“, was a much-touted track toward reaching universal health care, but it’s hardly the only option on the table. Founding Executive Director of Families USA Ron Pollack suggested various alternatives to the status quo that inch closer to universality, like expanding Medicaid and extending coverage to more immigrants. Other Democrat lawmakers have also introduced their own bills. The objective for each of these proposals is to get more of the 28.1 million people without insurance covered for the sake of their health and financial well being.

Moreover, while conservatives continue push back against universal health care, support is growing. The majority agrees that it’s the government’s responsibility to ensure health care for all. The question is how?
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While many conservative outlets were quick to use Britain as an example for why a single-payer system is doomed to fail, they failed to examine the reason for the shortcomings. Austerity measures introduced by conservatives in 2010 as a response to financial turmoil have only increased under successive governments. Those policies have underfunded the NHS, making it increasingly hard for the organization to handle waves of patients. The cold and flu season has also hit the U.K. especially hard this season.

As such thousands took to the streets to demand more funding for the program, a point that was made by Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn of the Labour Party on Twitter:
[Jeremy Corbyn
@jeremycorbyn
Wrong. People were marching because we love our NHS and hate what the Tories are doing to it. Healthcare is a human right. [/i]
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The big picture is that Trump is among very few people who are suggesting that Britain should give up on a fundamental principle that health care access should not be contingent on income or geography.

...as a response to financial turmoil...

Sezzit all, right there, eh, Walt?

Even the UK health secretary, Jeremy Hunt – the target of many of the marchers’ ire, for presiding over NHS underfunding – rose to defend the NHS against Trump’s attack, in rare public criticism of the US president from a serving cabinet minister. “I may disagree with claims made on that march, but not ONE of them wants to live in a system where 28m people have no cover,” he tweeted. “NHS may have challenges but I’m proud to be from the country that invented universal coverage – where all get care no matter the size of their bank balance”.

No, it was not in support of the NHS.

England, Wales and Northern Ireland
For every £2 earned above £100,000, £1 of the personal allowance is lost. This means for incomes between £100,001 and £123,000 the marginal income tax rate is 60%.

I hadn’t heard Trump say anything about the protest. I was responding to Walter and posters here attempting to reframe the protest.

The battle to replace Trent Franks, who resigned last year after urging a female staff member to become a surrogate mother for his child, has turned less on any traditional conservative issue than on who would best defend the president and enact his agenda.

Republican primaries, which once demanded that candidates please a constellation of interest groups and answer every conservative questionnaire, have increasingly become about the agenda of one man. Trump critics inside the GOP, such as Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio), and Mitt Romney, hold outsized roles in the national political debate. But the candidates bidding for Republican votes can’t praise Trump enough.

It’s a far from perfect bond. Neither Pence, who spoke here Wednesday night, nor Trump took questions from their supposed allies. Some Republicans say those successes came only when Trump deferred to GOP lawmakers on the tax legislation — as opposed to during the failed ACA repeal, when he thought he could threaten them into supporting his position.

“I think he’s still getting a sense of how Congress works and how politics works. I think that he came in believing that he could force or bully with much greater effect than he, I think, proved able to do,” said Rep. Mark Sanford (S.C.), a staunch conservative who has regularly criticized Trump’s demeanor.

Sanford noted that more than 30 House Republicans have now decided to retire, run for another office or outright resign amid controversy — hardly a resounding vote of confidence in the Trump administration.

“I think that people are trying to get their arms around what he means to them,” Sanford said. “In some cases, he means, ‘I’m out of here.’ ”