“When you’re dealing on trade, everything is on the table — so NHS or anything else, and a lot more than that,” the president said when asked about the position of Britain’s health system in a trade deal. “I don’t see it being on the table,” Morgan quoted Trump as saying in the interview, which is due to be televised early Wednesday morning. Founded in 1948, it is the largest single-payer health system in the world and primarily funded by the British government. Both Trump and Johnson’s statements about the NHS and its potential role in trade talks have been vague. Private involvement in the NHS has been growing for some time, and some fear that eventually the floodgates might open to a more profit-driven health system, if not a “Trojan horse” for a fully privatized system.

Source: Washington Post June 04, 2019 17:44 UTC