Romney Praises Israel's Socialized Health Care System
Source: Buzz feed
Romney Praises Israel's Socialized Health Care System
JERUSALEM Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney offered praise for the Israeli health care system today a medical plan that has been socialized since its founding in 1948.
Romney, who championed the Massachusetts health care mandate, but is an opponent of the federal mandate passed by President Barack Obama, marveled at how little Israel spends on health care relative to the United States.
Do you realize what health care spending is as a percentage of the GDP in Israel? eight percent," Romney told donors at a fundraiser at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, speaking of a health care system that is compulsory for Israelis and funded by the government. "You spend eight percent of GDP on health care. You're a pretty healthy nation. We spend 18% of our GDP on health care. Ten percentage points more. That gap, that 10 percent cost, compare that with the size of our military our military which is four percent four percent. Our gap with Israel is 10 points of GDP. We have to find ways not just to provide health care to more people, but to find ways to find and manage our health care costs."
Romney has explained that he opposes ObamaCare because what worked in Massachusetts may not work for other states. Highlighting the success of the Israeli system in a country that enjoys one of the highest life expectancy rates in the world could complicate matters for Romney at home.
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Every Israeli citizen is entitled to health care services under the National Health Insurance Law.
Every resident has a right to register as a member of an HMO of his/her choice, free of any preconditions or limitations stemming from his/her age or the state of his/her health.
Every resident has a right to receive, via the HMO of which he or she is a member, all of the services included in the medical services basket, subject to medical discretion, and at a reasonable quality level, within a reasonable period of time and at a reasonable distance from his/her home.
Each member has a right to receive the health services while preserving the members dignity, privacy and medical confidentiality.
Every Israeli resident has the right to transfer from one HMO to another.
Each member has a right to select the service providers, such as doctors, caregivers, therapists, hospitals and institutes, from within a list of service providers who have entered into an agreement with the HMO to which the member belongs, and within the arrangements in place for the selection of the service providers, and which the HMO publishes from time to time.
Each member has a right to know which hospitals and institutes, and other service providers, are included in the agreement with the HMO, and what are the selection processes at the HMO.
Each member has a right to see and to receive a copy of the HMO regulations.
Each resident has a right to receive from the HMO complete information concerning the payment arrangements in place in the HMO for health services as well as the HMOs plans offered for additional health services (CIP).
Each member has a right to complain with the Public Inquiries commissioner at the medical institute that treated the member, to the person in charge of investigating member complaints at the HMO of which s/he is a member, or to the complaints commissioner for the national health insurance law in the Ministry of Health.
Each member has a right to file suit at the district labor court.
Source:State of Israel Ministry of health
http://www.health.gov.il/English/Topics/RightsInsured/RightsUnderLaw/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.health.gov.il/English/Topics/RightsInsured/RightsUnderLaw/Pages/default.aspx
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(13,257 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)its better than the third rate system the US has
AND THAT'S WHY IT SAVES MONEY BECAUSE ITS NON PROFIT.
Lucy Goosey
(2,940 posts)Most western countries both spend less on health care and cover more people than the US does. Now would be a good time for the Obama campaign to remind everyone that even Mitt thinks this is a good system, especially given what he did in Mass.
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)Although, the issue is rather settled right now.
I see a need for Congress to act again and yet improve the ACA provisions; single payer should be added to the mix.
truth2power
(8,219 posts)whatever the merits, or lack thereof, of ACA, it's still a privatised system, unlike the Israeli system, which is universal and (gasp!) SOCIALIZED.
If the Obama camp were to open that can of worms some people might start asking inconvenient questions, such as, "Whatever happened to the public option we were promised?"
edit: typos
Lucy Goosey
(2,940 posts)I was thinking the Dems could still hit Romney on the fact that he's praising a socialized universal system abroad while promising to repeal a not-socialized, not-universal system at home.
But I don't disagree with you about the ACA. Not at all.
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)There is a reason that the "public option" died.
truth2power
(8,219 posts)criticism of Pres. Obama is not to be done.
I can only say that it's better to go down fighting than to die on your knees, or something like that. The exact wording escapes me at the moment.
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)truth2power
(8,219 posts)booley
(3,855 posts)Yeah. what about that public option?
Everyone here seems to agree that while the ACA was a big step, it's far from perfect.
So why not campaign on improving it and then put on conservatives on the spot because they want to go backwards?
For once start pushing the dialogue to the left.
Botany
(70,501 posts).... we have a private for profit health care industry who sees that their
job is to make money not help people. We are the only industrialized
that does not have a single payer national health system.
And with that additional money the insurance companies and the pharmaceutical
companies make they can own Senators such as Max Baucus and Chuck
Grassley who make it their job to stop health care reform.
The affordable care act was a good 1st step but we need to do so much more.
BTW Fuck you Mitt Romney.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)Doesn't have the wit God gave a FIG!
Kablooie
(18,628 posts)What a great leader for America.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)If Mitt fondled any more Israeli dicks he'd be a mohel
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)What a dumbass!
primavera
(5,191 posts)And he wonders why people have such a hard time nailing down what he stands for.
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)TomCADem
(17,387 posts)...Strikes again. I guess the goal is to get the Presidency at all costs so that he can give away the farm to all of his financial backers.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)I have no problem with having that discussion. Bring it on, Willard. Talk your CEO talk about how the numbers for non-profit UCH make our for-profit insurance system look like a fools paradise. Throw out all of those "efficiency expert" thoughts about how much more streamlined it is than ours.
Ring up the pnhp.org and get some numbers from them, and run with it.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)I actually could not believe he said this. It's just too perfect.
Do you realize what health care spending is as a percentage of the G.D.P. in Israel? Eight percent, he said. You spend eight percent of G.D.P. on health care. Youre a pretty healthy nation. We spend 18 percent of our G.D.P. on health care, 10 percentage points more. That gap, that 10 percent cost, compare that with the size of our military our military which is 4 percent, 4 percent. Our gap with Israel is 10 points of G.D.P. We have to find ways not just to provide health care to more people, but to find ways to fund and manage our health care costs.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)...Mittens, you ARE an idiot.
randome
(34,845 posts)"He said...wait...what? He said...no...that doesn't...how do we...?"
The sheer depth of Romney's ignorance staggers the mind!
radhika
(1,008 posts)here in the USA.
Romney did say he'd REPEAL Obamacare and IMPROVE it. Maybe the Israeli model could be the improved one.
louis-t
(23,292 posts)"What works in Israel might not work here...........heh heh heh."
truth2power
(8,219 posts)Why not?
Spell it out in detail. We'll wait.
jaycube
(4 posts)what we called this the political stunt for the election campaign, surely he is getting some jews votes from the US with this statement.