Someone who truly understand and believes in free markets wouldn't be talking up places were single payer supposedly "works". They would be promoting examples where the free market works better than government. Besides, single payer doesn't work very well even in small homogeneous populations. They still have long waiting lists for care, higher mortality rates for things like cancer, zero profit motive and therefore zero medical innovation of the type we have the the USA, and sky-high taxes to pay for it all.
Totally agree. It worries me greatly when conservatives equivocate when it comes to Trump, in particular, and make excuses for his many and varied liberal stances.