Twitter star "Hamfisted Bun Vendor," a cancer survivor, responds to Trump's Universal HC tweet.

[mwooldri]

29. The NHS is absolutely brilliant.

It is not perfect. But it is brilliant.

My grandfather had two pacemakers, and a whole load of medicine for his emphysema. My father has had multiple heart surgeries, bowel surgery, and prostate cancer. Neither of them had to file bankruptcy, nor received any bills in the mail asking for payment. All were treated - on the NHS. No copays. No deductibles. Paid through National Insurance Contributions through the pay cheque, paid according to their means.

Oh, and the NHS covers everyone in the UK. Costs a whole lot less than US medicine too. Yes, it is groaning at the seams and it has always been groaning at the seams. But you know what? Unlike US health care systems... it works.

As for marching to save the NHS... yes, my father's been there and my sister has been there (she's a RN, presently working NHS). I'd join them but I'm here in the States. Ironically it is so strange that the marching to save the NHS happens whenever there is a Conservative government in power.

The Royal family try to go NHS where possible as a matter of principle. Prince William worked for a time as an Air Ambulance pilot. So if the NHS is good enough for royalty, it's good enough for the rest of us peons... ehe