WHO Official Urges President-Elect Trump To Expand Obamacare, Improve Access To Health Care For All Americans

Reuters: WHO urges Trump to expand Obamacare, ensure health care for all
“The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday urged U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to expand Obamacare and ensure all Americans have access to health care. The real estate magnate takes office next month after promising to repeal outgoing President Barack Obama’s signature health care policy which helped millions more Americans get medical insurance but has been a target of Republican attacks. Agnes Soucat, the WHO’s director of health system governance and financing, said there were various ways of providing health cover to more people, and it amounted to ‘political choices’…” (Nebehay, 12/9).

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