HEALTH COACH - Trump: Australian health care system better than US

HEALTH COACH -

 Trump: Australian health care system better than US   
 


The praise of President Donald Trump of the health care system funded by the Government of Australia has raised the wrath of Senator Bernie Sanders, one of the leading advocates of these single payer systems. 

The Republicans strongly opposed the calls of Sanders and others to create a "universal" health system similar to the United States 

The praise of Trump for the Australian system came as he met Thursday in New York with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull a few hours after the US House passed a bill to repeal Parts of the Affordable Care Act, health care law promulgated by former President Barack Obama 

Trump described the US health system as a failure and added, "I should not say this to a great gentleman and my friend from Australia because you have better health care that we. He said the United States would have very good health care. 

Sanders, the independent Vermont who sought the Democratic presidential nomination of 2016, gnawed in response Friday: "Yes, Mr. Trump, the Australian health system is much better than ours and infinitely better than the disastrous bill that You have supported. " 

White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders warned Friday against overhearing the president's comment. She stated that he complimented a foreign chief on the "operations of their health care system" and that he "meant nothing more." 

Trump seemed to contradict his spokesman shortly afterwards, twittering: "Of course, Australians have better health care than we do, everyone does. ObamaCare is dead! But our health care will soon be great. "

Australia has a government funded system that provides free or subsidized care for all Australian citizens and permanent residents, which is partially funded by income taxes. 

In a previous tweet Friday, Trump said his "big win at home" was "very exciting" 

"But when everything gets closer to the inclusion of Phase 2, we will really have health!" Trump added in the tweet sent from his home on his private golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Trump was probably referring to the regulatory and other changes that the administration can bring to the law of the Obama era. 

Trump spent an extended weekend in his central New Jersey home, about 40 miles west of New York. 

"Rather than provoking a major disturbance in N.Y.C., I will be working in my home in Bedminster, N.J. this weekend." Also saves the country's money! " He tweeted. 

The White House said that he held meetings and made calls, but did not say with whom. Trump also signed a $ 1 trillion bill funded by the government until September. 

Trump spent a few hours in his hometown of New York on Thursday but avoided his home in Trump Tower, where security has been tightened and his costs have increased since he became president. He had not returned to the city since he left for his inauguration on 20 January. 

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The writer of the Associated Press Kristen Gelineau in Sydney, Australia, contributed to this report.