Everyone knows that Mitt Romney pushed and pulled to enact universal health care in Massachusetts when he was The Guv there; everyone also knows that Barack Obama totally stole Romney’s plan and took it national (which is why Mssrs. Pawlenty, Blunt and Cranky et.al. have used the term “ObamNeycare”).
Since Mitt decided to run for the Presidency, he has shifted his stance somewhat (as in, the North Atlantic is somewhat salty, and a wee bit chilly & wet); he says that what was good public policy for a single state is Socialism for an entire nation. Hard to buy a line of hooey like that, but not impossible. So, we gave ol’ Willie the benefit of the doubt.
Until today, that is. The Guv was in Israel, and he was loudly talking up their health care system: a system which looks one whole helluva lot like ObamNeycare. So it looks like Mitt is indeed a Socialist MoFo just like the Prexy, since he has now praised the same system at state AND national levels.
He must have just been funnin’ with us about not liking Obama’s heath care system. Or lying, so as to hide his Secret Socialist Society membership (do they give out decoder rings?). Yup, Mitt was a stinking Socialist all along, and tried to hide it: but now we see the truth.
Of course, it could be that the whole Obama/Romney/Israeli health care model is not Socialism at all, and is simply good public policy….naaah. Couldn’t be.
Mr. B & C
bluntandcranky 
It’s not right to call Israel’s system “socialized”. Looking to the WHO, we find that Israel’s system is about 60% publicly financed and 40% privately financed. But, in the USA, it is about 50% for each.
By the way, Canada, UK, Germany, and France all have WAY more public financing than does Israel. They are all over 70% or 80% publicly financed.
To make matters more complex, Israel’s system is about 29% out of pocket. That is a feature that many conservatives would find attractive, as it represents more cost sharing and more health cost on the part of the individual. Liberals tend to see high out of pocket spending as bad.
So, the real story here could be liberals praising Israeli health care, not conservatives praising it.
An interesting discussion is definitely worth comment. There’s no doubt that that you need to write more about this issue, it might not be a taboo subject but typically folks don’t discuss
these topics. To the next! Kind regards!!