Corbyn, May respond to Trump’s attack on UK healthcare system

UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has hit back a US President Donald Trump’s jibe that Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) was “going broke and not working.”

On Monday, Trump used an NHS rally attended by a large group of people in London to attack Democrats and their resistance against the Republican desire to repeal the Affordable Care Act, former president Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law.

“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!” Trump tweeted.

The statement did not go down well with Corbyn, who took to twitter and confronted Trump.

“Wrong. People were marching because we love our NHS and hate what the Tories are doing to it. Healthcare is a human right,” he said.

A main opponent of UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s NHS policies, Corbyn has repeatedly criticized May’s lacking policies in addressing the issues plaguing the severely under-budgeted.

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In early January, he accused May of being “too weak” to sack underperforming members of her cabinet, including her health secretary Jeremy Hunt.

"We know the Prime Minister recognizes there's a crisis in our NHS because she wanted to sack the Health Secretary last week but was too weak to do it,” Corbyn said as he traded barbs with the PM in a raucous debate in the first Prime Minister's Questions of 2018 at the House of Commons.

May hits back at Trump

Earlier, the British PM’s office also reacted to Trump’s attack on NHS, saying May was “proud of having an NHS that is free at the point of delivery.”

“NHS funding is at a record high and was prioritized in the Budget with an extra £2.8 billion,” the spokesman noted, adding that a recent Commonwealth Fund international survey had rated the British healthcare system as “the best in the world; for a second time.”

Due to heavy Democratic opposition, Trump and the Republicans have so far failed to deliver on one of his main campaign promises, which was replacing the Obamacare with what he calls a fairer healthcare system that is not mandatory.