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From a debate regarding nationalized health care:

PAUL KRUGMAN—and I wanted to ask, actually two questions, to the audience:
First, how many Canadians, would Canadians in the room please
raise your hands. [ONE PERSON APPLAUDS, LAUGHTER]

JOHN DONVAN We have about seven hands going up—

PAUL KRUGMAN Okay, not as many as I thought. Okay, of those of you who are
not on the panel who are Canadians,, how many of you think you
have a terrible health care system. [PAUSE] One, two—

JOHN DONVAN We see—almost all of the same hands going up. [LAUGHTER]

PAUL KRUGMAN Bad move on my part. [APPLAUSE] I’ve got a selected--all right, I
won’t try it. But I will say, that—

MICHAEL CANNON We should check their papers.

Maybe they were all in the U.S. for medical care. That would void the question.

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