Meanwhile: Who lives better?

Italy is better off than I thought. They really know how to run a country. For years they looked comical with all their elections; now they almost top the list. And they certainly eat better than we do.
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Meanwhile: Who lives better?
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Published: July 5, 2007
One of the memorable scenes in "Sicko," Michael Moore's latest cinematic provocation, comes from France, where he shows doctors in their little white cars making house calls - for free.
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But it's not just France. When we lived in Italy some time ago, a doctor came to our farmhouse rental on Easter Sunday morning to diagnose a stomach ailment. He charged nothing.
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Let's stipulate that Moore is a one-sided pamphleteer, with a bit of Mark Twain and Pat Robertson in his schtick. But like all propagandists, his job is not to find some objective truth, but to anger, challenge, ask hard questions.

So, who lives better, Americans or Europeans?
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/05/opinion/edegan.php