"When we look at the American debate on reforming health care, it's difficult to believe. The very fact that there should have been such a violent debate simply on the fact that the poorest of Americans should not be left out in the streets without a cent to look after them ... is something astonishing to us." - French President Nicolas Sarkozy
A reader notes:
"Apart from the appalling ease with which the right just denies how broken our healthcare system is to how many millions of people, one of the most bewildering aspects of the past year's "debate" is how deep the sense of American exceptionalism runs in so many people.I can already hear the irrational Francophobes on the Right chiming in.
The entire developed world -- every single industrialized country except for us -- has some kind of universal health care. How insular and arrogant do you have to be to insist that we're the ones who've got it right and the entire rest of the globe has it wrong?"
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