[EternalVigilance]

No surprise. Though few seem to remember it, Churchill was the father of socialized medicine in Great Britain. And, of course, Romney kicked open the door in the United States.

[Diogenesis]

Stated, but unproven.
Let us TEST the hypothesis, FRiend.

Behold the Happiest Moment in Mr. RomneyCARE's life
installing Statism and DEATH PANELS.

When did Churchill putatively do this?

Did he look as happy?

[Vigilanteman]

The National Health Service in England was created by the National Health Service Act of 1946. Churchill was voted out of office in 1945, just weeks after VE Day.

He did not regain the Prime Minister's Office again until 1951.

Churchill did push through some temporary measures to deal with health care during the war, but it was Attlee's Administration which made them permanent and turned them into socialized medicine with the NHS.

[Churchillspirit]

Though few seem to remember it, Churchill was the father of socialized medicine in Great Britain.

The National Health Service was fully implemented in the UK in 1948. The Conservatives had been out of power for three years then.

It was actually Health Minister Aneurin Bevan who was it's architect.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Churchill may have been a great man, but he was also a politician. The pressure for an NHS came largely from the Labour Party with power was shared in the national government during WWII.
You don’t get into high office without having a certain sense of pragmatism. Apart from having to make concessions to his Labour colleagues, he knew very well that the public mood at that time supported universal healthcare, and resisting it would have been political suicide in a post war world.
As it happened, even that wasn’t enough for Churchill, and he was voted out in 1945 by a public who didn’t generally share his Conservative convictions.

[UKrepublican]

Hey?

Dislike Mitt, but please don’t besmirch Churchill, socialized healthcare came in after he was out of power and was inspired by the Labour Party.