I keep hearing variations of this bit (video) from Nancy Pelosi about how if we only provided health care for everyone, businesses would be unshackled from unfair constraints. The “entrepreneurial spirit,” in Pelosi’s words, would be unleashed creating 400,000 jobs almost immediately and a total of 4 million jobs soon thereafter.

Really? As one looks around the world at advanced industrialized nations, is there one — just one! — that provides universal health care that has anything close to America’s entrepreneurial record? Pick a country — any country — over the last 40 years that has equaled the American record of job creation, growth, and innovation. Sure some countries, Japan for example, have had great runs. But does Nancy Pelosi honestly believe Japan Inc.’s now-fading successes were attributable to its health-care policies?