The Best Health Care In The World

From Andrew Sullivan here. (Andrew must be on vacation.)

By Patrick Appel

Reason editor-in-chief Matt Welch gets 90 percent of his health care in France:

In France, you are covered, period. It doesn’t depend on your job, it doesn’t depend on a health maintenance organization, and it doesn’t depend on whether you filled out the paperwork right. Those who (like me) oppose ObamaCare, need to understand (also like me, unfortunately) what it’s like to be serially rejected by insurance companies even though you’re perfectly healthy. It’s an enraging, anxiety-inducing, indelible experience, one that both softens the intellectual ground for increased government intervention and produces active resentment toward anyone who argues that the U.S. has “the best health care in the world.”

Clive Crook has further thoughts on why it is hard to apply the French system to America.