[moonshot925]

Yawn. Romney's comment was about the SPENDING in Israel on healthcare. It's significantly lower than ours.

Yes. Israel spends 8% of GDP on heathcare while we spend over 15%.

They have a longer average life span and lower infant mortality rate than we do.

Their system seems to be working well for them.

But the question is, would it work for the United States?

Hard to tell since we are two vastly different nations.

[dragnet2]

I love how people twist themselves into knots making excuse after excuse for Romney.

My days of voting for these political insiders and private party club members are way over.

[Gabrial]

The biggest difference of all between the two systems is that in the US those that can pay end up paying for those that can't/won't pay. In Israel it is mandatory that you pay in to the system, even if you don't have a job. In the US, fees for healthcare end up getting raised to cover the costs for those that don't pay their bills.

Israel does not have the problem of tens of millions of illegal people in their country because they are concerned about people trying to kill them so they actually enforce their borders.