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Donald Trump has rowed back on his remarks that the NHS should form part of a future trade deal between the UK and US.
The comment, made during his state visit to the UK, prompted a backlash from Conservative leadership candidates, Labour and trade unions.
But on Wednesday, the US president told ITV's Good Morning Britain: "I don't see it being on the table."
He added that the NHS was something he would "not consider part of trade".
Current rules allow foreign firms to bid for NHS contracts and a subsidiary of the US company United Health is among private groups which have already successfully done so.
Some, though, fear the health service is vulnerable to creeping privatisation or a weakening of the tight control the NHS currently keeps on drug prices if US firms get greater access.
The comment, made during his state visit to the UK, prompted a backlash from Conservative leadership candidates, Labour and trade unions.
But on Wednesday, the US president told ITV's Good Morning Britain: "I don't see it being on the table."
He added that the NHS was something he would "not consider part of trade".
Current rules allow foreign firms to bid for NHS contracts and a subsidiary of the US company United Health is among private groups which have already successfully done so.
Some, though, fear the health service is vulnerable to creeping privatisation or a weakening of the tight control the NHS currently keeps on drug prices if US firms get greater access.
Trump rows back on NHS trade remarks
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Donald Trump
United Kingdom
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Health care costs are crazy here in the US between the drug companies and the hospitals we led the world
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Well yeah. U.S. for-profit drug market using BREXIT trade talks to renegotiate drug prices within the NHS is a non-starter.
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I have to ask: WHY? NHS has absolutely nothing to do with any U.S. healthcare system.
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MAJ James Woods
That’s the issue. Trump Admin wants to make NHS part of trade talks to get US private drug companies in their market. UK officials want nothing to do with our For Profit drug companies beyond what has already been agreed to up to now. In Trump talk, “no do-overs”.
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