I have often wondered why we don't hear more about the Swiss health care system -- especially by folks on the left. After all, just about every study of the topic finds the Swiss system to be the most egalitarian in the whole world.

During the debate over Hillary Care, the White House flirted with Germany and France. Michael Moore bounced from Canada to France to England and even Cuba in his movie, SiCKO. A recent documentary praising national health insurance focused on Taiwan. The Physicians for a National Health Program has been perpetually fixated on Canada (the only "single payer" system in the world, other than North Korea). The Commonwealth Fund is continually judging European systems superior to our own. But no one on the left ever mentions Switzerland.

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