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A nice bit of snark from one of the panelists at the Congressional Staff Plenary. After a lot of back-and-forth over the dystopia that is England's health system (full coverage, 41% of our per capita spending, similar outcomes, but more government involvement), one of the speakers snapped back:
We have the blessing and advantage of being the last industrialized nation without a universal health care system. That means we can learn from what they did right, and what they did wrong, ad create something that's uniquely American and in fact better.Which is true, of course. This idea that England exists and so we must become England is actually rather weird. Check out my post on the Canada/England fallacy for more on this.
