Hands off the NHS

My grandfather helped to found the NHS. He was a member of the Tredegar Medical Aid Board in South Wales in the 1920s. People paid a small sum of money each month into a fund to ensure they could receive medical treatment. Another member of the Board was Aneurin Bevan who founded the NHS.

My wife has also worked as a senior nurse within the NHS for almost 30 years.

So I'm a great defender of the NHS.

It's not perfect. But for the vast majority of people in the UK it provides wonderful health care regardless of their income. And that's the point. A decision was made 60 years ago that everyone regardless of income should have access to medical care. It's not the nanny state it is compassion.

The American people have to decide for themselves what model of health care they should have. But don't criticise our system.