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While President Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Insurance Companies/Israel) rails against expanding Medicare to hurting Americans in desperate need of health care coverage, he has no problem with sending U.S. taxpayer money to aid Israel - a state that has universal government run healthcare.
So when is Joe going to call for an end to the $2.5 Billion in annual aid to Israel until they "correct" their socialist health care system?
As Reform Jews noted in a July piece titled "Israel as a Model for Health Care":
"Israel's health care system has four key components: (1) universal coverage; (2) cradle to grave coverage; (3) coverage of both basic services and catastrophic care; and (4) coverage of all medications. Patients pay just a small co-payment to see specialists and to purchase medication, and primary care is free."
In other words, Israel has much more than the mere pittance Joe Lieberman is stonewalling from Americans. And Joe has major problems with even this pittance for Americans!
Keep fighting the good fight against evil socialized healthcare, Joe; call for an end of U.S. taxpayer aid to Israel until Israelis get the same crap "plan" you’re demanding for Americans.