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Related: About this forumRomney Praises Israel’s Universal Health Care System, Which Includes Individual Mandate
Throughout his presidential campaign, Mitt Romney has been running away from the individual insurance mandate in the Affordable Care Act even though a mandate is a cornerstone of the former Massachusetts governors health care reform law. If Im President of the United States, were gonna get rid of Obamacare and return, under our constitution, the 10th Amendment, the responsibility and care of health care to the people in the states, Romney said during a GOP presidential debate.
But during his trip to Israel, Romney inadvertently praised the individual requirement and universal health care. (F)or an American abroad, you cant get much closer to the ideals and convictions of my own country than you do in Israel, he said. And according to The New York Times, Romney spoke favorably about the fact that health care makes up a much smaller amount of Israels gross domestic product compared to the United States:
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.
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Full article here: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/07/30/604111/romney-individual-mandate-israel/
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Romney Praises Israel’s Universal Health Care System, Which Includes Individual Mandate (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Jul 2012
OP
This one of those areas that the Romney doesn't think about the goose - gander thing.
liberal N proud
Jul 2012
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liberal N proud
(60,344 posts)1. This one of those areas that the Romney doesn't think about the goose - gander thing.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)2. Military 4%. WTF?
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)3. Get enough foreign aid, you can have lots of health care.