Gov will extend medical insurance to all Iranians. First step will be to cover 5mn uninsured Iranians by the social safety net #RouhaniCare
— Hassan Rouhani (@HassanRouhani) February 5, 2014
Courtesy of PBS:
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani announced Wednesday his plan to extend universal health insurance to all Iranians in a new program that the president himself dubbed RouhaniCare on Twitter. The Western-educated president, tweeted that his plan should cover an additional 5 million people.
And by the way I am pretty sure that calling it RouhaniCare is simply a way to mock America.
Or maybe just Mitt Romney, not really sure which.
Civilized societies take care of their citizens, not only because it's the right thing to do, but because they understand that a healthy population is a happy, productive population.
ReplyDeleteI swear, sometimes I think our motto here in the US is "I got mine, screw you!"
Sure. It's E Pluribus Screwum.
DeleteWe have "flipped" JFK's inaugural words - today it's "Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country can do for you" - it's me, myself, and I - "The great I AM".
DeleteAmerica is a mess! I hope the majority are watching all of this because the United States Congress members are who need to be replaced with a YOUNGER group. A new group of men and women that are interested in working, not taking vacations, want to earn their pay and benefits provided by the taxpayers and to work hard as does the private sector.
ReplyDeleteWe need folks that have fresh ideas, will compromise and support the poor and middle class!
Vote out the Republicans the likes of McConnell, Cantor, Boehner, Ryan, etc. as well as the Republican governors across the nation as they come up for reelection. They are anti women's rights, racists and obstructionists. Check ALL of their records!! How they vote, Bills they introduce, etc.
REPUBLICANS could care less about the poor, middle class, unemployed, disabled and hungry throughout our country!
VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!
This will be ammunition for the RWNJ to oppose universal healthcare. Can't you hear them already, "YOU want America to be like Iran!"
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ReplyDelete1st — Every Iraqi has the right to health service, and the state is in charge of public health and guarantees the means of protection and treatment by building different kinds of hospitals and health institutions.
2nd — Individuals and associations have the right to build hospitals, dispensaries or private clinics under the supervision of the state. This shall be regulated by law. - Article 31 of the Iraqi Constitution, drafted by the Bush Administration and ratified by the people of Iraq in 2005, includes state-guaranteed (single payer) healthcare for life for every Iraqi citizen.
There are other health care guarantees, including special provisions for children, the elderly, and the handicapped elsewhere in the 43-page document.
So we have a Republican President imposing healthcare on Iraqi citizens while the Republican Party opposes it at home.
Just wondering..... do women exist in RouhaniCare? Cause if they don't, it's not "universal".
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