Australia, like almost every other major developed country, has a universal health care system.
Trump Thursday praised Australia's system, called Medicare, at a meeting with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in New York City.
The bill the house passed includes several provisions experts say actually makes healthcare prohibitively expensive and more hard to obtain for millions of Americans.
In his second week as president, the Republican had a disastrous conversation with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull via phone, in which Trump bragging about his imagined electoral-college landslide, lashed out at Turnbull over a refugee agreement, and abruptly hung up 25 minutes into an hour-long call.
"We have a failing health care", said Trump.
But Sanders, who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination a year ago, said the United States should look to Australia on health.
"Thank you Mr Trump for admitting that universal health care is the better way to go", Mr Sanders later tweeted.
"It was very, very warm as I said more family than formal", he added. Sanders applauded Trump for praising Australia's health care system while also using the president's own words to argue against his Republican-backed health care bill.
Mr Turnbull would only offer limited details about his bilateral meeting with Mr Trump, but said they did talk about immigration.
"We have the third largest foreign commitment to the battle against ISIL in the Middle East and our forces are working together and integrated intimately, as I saw when I visited our forces in Iraq and Afghanistan in the lead-up to Anzac Day ..."
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And the 19-year-old was at it again as she took to Instagram to share a very revealing and racy photo on Wednesday. She spent some quality time there as the reality star was spotted acquainting with an alpaca on Wednesday.
The World Health Organization ranked the U.S.as 37th out of 191 countries on a study of overall national health system performance in 2016 - behind Australia, at 32, but well ahead of bottom-tier countries like Sierra Leone, Myanmar and Central African Republic.
The two attended a dinner aboard the Intrepid, now a museum docked in the Hudson River, to honour the 75th anniversary of the victory of the United States and Australia over Japan in the Battle of the Coral Sea during World War II.
Despite this assurance, many U.S. citizens are anxious that they will not be able to afford healthcare under the changes.
"We had a great call", he said with a smile.
While available evidence indicates that the AHCA will not provide universal coverage, Trump had supported a single-payer system in his 2000 book, "The America We Deserve".
"It was a wonderful, warm evening of thanks and recognition of those veterans, and of course it was great for Lucy and I to meet with the President and Mrs Trump", Mr Turnbull told reporters at a press conference in NY on Friday.
The US leader raised eyebrows when he told Mr Turnbull shortly after the bill passed that Australia had "better health care than we do".
Those lawmakers who voted in favor of Thursday's "draconian and mean spirited, punitive legislation" have missed the point, said NNU executive director RoseAnn DeMoro: "There is only one way to fix healthcare-to improve Medicare, one of the signature reforms in US history, and expand it to cover all Americans".
"I think we've made very clear we're going to be hands on in this process".
However, other provisions - like the controversial mandates of Obamacare requiring insurance companies to cover mental health services, contraception, paediatric care, and other items - will require a two-thirds majority in order to pass. I think I know the gospel pretty well and I'd say The CBO is not the gospel.
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