Americans will choose whether society has responsibility to others on healthcare, Mr. Frech, or whether it's every man for himself. That's part of the current great national debate in America, the first and for about a century the only modern liberal democracy. On this one, it may be fair to say that a narrow parochialism is holding back the republic's growth and may be fostering intolerance. I put my money on the republic; it gets it right over time.

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