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WickedsDesire -> Is Trump right about Australian healthcare? (5/5/2017 11:58:49 PM)
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Is Trump right about Australian healthcare?
Republican senators are sounding sceptical of an Obamacare replacement passed by members of their own party in the House of Representatives.
It marked Mr Trump's first legislative victory and goes some way to keeping a key campaign promise to roll back his predecessor's signature healthcare reform.
But several Republican congressman who voted for their measure admitted they did not even read it.
One Republican senator said a final version will be "near impossible".
In a celebration at the White House after the vote, President Trump declared that Obamacare was dead.
Hours later, Mr Trump raised eyebrows when he praised Australia's government-funded healthcare system during a meeting with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in New York.
Progressive critics including Senator Bernie Sanders quickly pointed out Australia's universal healthcare, a system in which Republicans have long attacked.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders suggested on Friday Mr Trump was "simply being complimentary of the prime minister, and I don't think it was much more than that".
But Mr Trump appeared to contradict his aide an hour later, when he tweeted: "Of course the Australians have better healthcare than we do - everybody does. ObamaCare is dead! But our healthcare will soon be great." he truly is off his rocker
In a sign of the uphill battle ahead, nearly every major medical group, including the American Medical Association and the American Hospital Association, strongly opposes the measure.
Critics expressed disbelief that the bill was passed without even allowing time for the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to give a cost estimate.
Spend
GDP Australia 9%
GDP America 17%
One can logically conclude that if the Americans moved to a Universal health care system they would save loads and loads of cash and also improve their shit rankings no matter how you look at it. Eg just google "where does the shitty blind robbery USA health care system rank on whatever list"
Now the USA jackals, well some of them, are a backward thinking lot - so they were 44 out 51 on the efficiency list. Being near the top of the list is a good thing. Dragging your arse along the bottom and paying for it excessively is not a good thing.
I reckon Bernie could take trump in a fight.
That reminds me is Bernie the "undead" as he looks about 200
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