Mitt Romney PRAISES Israel’s SOCIALIZED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM But Wants To APPEAL THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT!

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Mitt Romney praises Israel’s SOCIALIZE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, yet OPPOSES THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT-AKA OBAMACARE?

From Buzz Feed:  Romney Praises Israel’s Socialized Health Care System

Excert:  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.

Read what’s covered under: “Rights of the Insured under the National Health Insurance Law”

  • 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 member’s 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 HMO’s 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.


Please tell me why Mitt Romney doesn’t think AMERICANS are not ENTITLED to the above, but the citizens of Israel are?

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2 Responses to Mitt Romney PRAISES Israel’s SOCIALIZED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM But Wants To APPEAL THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT!

  1. Ametia says:

    FYI: Preventive Services Covered Under the Affordable Care Act

    If you have a new health insurance plan or insurance policy beginning on or after September 23, 2010, the following preventive services must be covered without your having to pay a copayment or co-insurance or meet your deductible. This applies only when these services are delivered by a network provider.

    Read on

    http://www.healthcare.gov/news/factsheets/2010/07/preventive-services-list.html#CoveredPreventiveServicesforAdults

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