FOREIGN POLICY/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “US President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Friday to defend remarks he had made about healthcare during a meeting with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
During a photo shoot with Turnbull, Trump told the prime minister that he didn’t need to tell him about the US healthcare system under the Affordable Care Act ‘because you have better healthcare than we do.’
Australia has a universal healthcare system, which Republicans have long attacked.
Trump tried to clarify the remark on Friday.
‘Of course the Australians have better healthcare than we do — everybody does,’ Trump tweeted. ‘ObamaCare is dead! But our healthcare will soon be great.’
Australia’s is one of 58 countries that has some form of a universal healthcare system. The American Health Care Act, the GOP plan to repeal and replace the law known as Obamacare, scraps a large swath of government control from the healthcare system, essentially moving the US further from an Australia-style universal healthcare.”
-Bob Bryan, “TRUMP: ‘Of course the Australians have better healthcare than we do — everybody does’,” Business Insider, May 5, 2017 1:30pm