President Donald Trump on Friday tweeted that "everybody" has better health care than Americans do under Obamacare, doubling down on a comment he made Thursday night that Australia - which has universal coverage - has a better health care system.
Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination previous year, also said the Senate should use the Australian system as a model while crafting an alternative to Republican healthcare legislation that Trump endorses.
Donald Trump and Malcolm Turnbull on Friday. "It's going to be fantastic health care", Trump said of the GOP's controversial AHCA.
"Right now Obamacare is failing", Trump said during a public appearance alongside Turnbull onboard the Intrepid in NY.
The president shocked and astonished citizens after he drew a comparison praising Australia during his meeting with Malcolm Turnbull, the nation's prime minister, only hours following the repeal of portions of Obamacare.
During a photo shoot with Turnbull, Trump told the prime minister that he didn't need to tell him about the U.S. healthcare system under the Affordable Care Act "because you have better healthcare than we do". The country's universal health care program is even called Medicare.
But while Mr Trump's bill was approved in the House, now it must pass through the Senate, where the legislation is believed to have little support.
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Mr. Priebus, who has said he has self-diagnosed obsessive-compulsive disorder, tried at first to restrict these interactions, often by keeping the president busy with ceremonial events like executive order signings and meetings with business leaders.
"Thank you Mr. Trump for admitting that universal health care is the better way to go".
It comes as a recent Harvard Medical School study found almost 45,000 annual deaths in America are associated with a lack of health insurance. "Let's take a look at the Australian healthcare system, and maybe. the Canadian healthcare system, or systems throughout Europe".
Healthcare in the United States is much more complicated, as there is no broad overarching government-funded healthcare system.
"What works in Australia may not work in the United States", Huckabee Sanders further clarified when pressed on the issue. "Let's take a look at the Australian health care system".
Earlier on Friday afternoon, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders sought to downplay Trump's comments to Turnbull.
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