The following article by Zach Ford was posted on the ThinkProgress website May 5, 2017:
It’s unclear why he’s working with congressional Republicans on the opposite.
Hours after a smug celebration of the passage of a bill to dismantle Obamacare with House Republicans, President Trump headed to New York to meet with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. As Trump gloated about how he thinks the bill will improve health care for Americans, he turned to Turnbull and said, “You have better health care than we do.”
Australia’s government provides nationalized health care, and the country spends about half as much as the U.S. does to provide it. Continue reading “Trump praises Australia’s universal health care in meeting with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull”