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Israel has had public education and public healthcare forever, even going back when US had no colored and jews signs in their public spaces.
by myth_drannon 7mo ago
Israel has had public education and public healthcare forever, even going back when US had no colored and jews signs in their public spaces.
- ceejayoz 7mo ago> Israel has had public education and public healthcare forever… This also applies to US aid.
- myth_drannon 7mo agoNope, Israel had it much earlier.
- ceejayoz 7mo agoIsrael, the nation state, came into being in 1948, with the explicit financial and military aid of the United States to do so. It has had American support since within hours of its founding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Israel#State_of_Israel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Israel#State_of_... "At the end of 1948, 53% of Israel's Jewish population was insured, about 80% of them by Clalit, with a few small health funds insuring the remainder. In the following years, Israel's healthcare system was expanded, and within a decade, about 90% were insured." Universal healthcare became a thing in 1995, it seems.
- tkah 7mo agoTo be fair here, what people often overlook by using Israel's current government as a reference point is that during the Kibbutz era Israel was decidedly left-wing. So I wouldn't necessarily attribute the presence of 90% or later 100% health care to US money.
- ohhman11 7mo ago>So I wouldn't necessarily attribute the presence of 90% or later 100% health care to US money. This is very strange, given that there would be no state of Israel without US money.
- ohhman11 7mo agoWhy would you even bother to post this obviously false claim? Might as well claim that the earth is flat.