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"Israel regulates its health care system aggressively, requiring all residents to carry insurance and capping revenue for various parts of the counhtry’s health care system.
Israel created a national health care system in 1995, largely funded through payroll and general tax revenue. The government provides all citizens with health insurance: They get to pick from one of four competing, nonprofit plans. Those insurance plans have to accept all customers—including people with pre-existing conditions—and provide residents with a broad set of government-mandated benefits."
LOL.....reading the linked story, the author (of this blog post) makes a HUGE leap when she says Romney says he favors their way.
The ONLY thing directly quoting what Romney said that pertains to that is: "We have to find ways, not just to provide health care to more people, but to find ways to finally manage our health care costs."
Sounds pretty standard to me!!!
THEN, the author goes on to CLAIM that the way they do it is through strict government control.
Perhaps that is the way they do it, but Romney doesn't say he endorses doing that in the USA at all anywhere in the article.
Furthermore, Israel's population is miniscule in comparison. I don't know of any Republican who doesn't think that health care could use some tweaking to make it better. And ONE way would be for government to allow insurance to be sold across State lines. That's government control (regulation) too.
What NHC system in the world isn't. Regulations probably vary from place to place. Heck, they get to choose from 4. What did Obama give us? ....one, maybe 2 choices?
Nevertheless, he's praising a system that is highly government regulated.
He praised their lower percentage of their GDP and said the USA needs to find a way to do that too.
He NEVER says we ought to do it through heavy government regulation.
Plus, I think most conservatives would agree that some regulation, done properly, would improve our system without having a complete government takeover anyhow.
He NEVER says we ought to do it through heavy government regulation.
Right, he never says anything, just that he will repeal ACA, but replace it with what?
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Plus, I think most conservatives would agree that some regulation, done properly, would improve our system without having a complete government takeover anyhow.
What NHC system in the world isn't. Regulations probably vary from place to place. Heck, they get to choose from 4. What did Obama give us? ....one, maybe 2 choices?
The public argument as been that every country that provides universal healthcare has had success in terms of outcomes and costs, but the greatest country in the world would fail miserably if attempting to copy those results.
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