Iran Is Apparently Adopting Universal Health Care: RouhaniCare

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, smiles as he meets President of the Swiss Confederation Didier Burkhalter during a bilateral meeting on the sideline of the 44. Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in D... Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, smiles as he meets President of the Swiss Confederation Didier Burkhalter during a bilateral meeting on the sideline of the 44. Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Keystone,Jean-Christophe Bott) MORE LESS
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The quasi-official Twitter account for Iranian president Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday that the country would be adopting a universal health care system to “extend medical insurance to all Iranians.”

In English at least, the new government is also adopting a nickname that would sound familiar to American ears: RouhaniCare.

Rouhani doesn’t tweet from the account himself, but he has tacitly endorsed it, saying it is written by “friends.” The English-language account is also retweeted and cited by the New York Times’s Tehran bureau chief.

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