Opinion | Learning From Europe (Published 2010)

As health care reform nears the finish line, there is much wailing and rending of garments among conservatives. And I’m not just talking about the tea partiers. Even calmer conservatives have been issuing dire warnings that Obamacare will turn America into a European-style social democracy. And everyone knows that Europe has lost all its economic dynamism. Strange to say, however, what everyone kn

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"But what European experience actually demonstrates is the opposite: social justice and progress can go hand in hand."