While those of us in the United States are arguing over whether health care is a legal right, the folks over in the Northern Europe are ensuring that all citizens have access to broadband Internet. The law, the first of its kind in any country, forces Internet providers to offer Internet connections that run at speeds of at least 1 megabit per second to all of the country's 5.3 million citizens.
I have two thoughts.
1) Sure the United States is a huge country and it would be a challenge to offer broadband to all of its citizens. But you'd think that our country, which invented the Internet and is a major leader in the industrialized world, would at least have broadband available to a large portion of its people. But it didn't even make the top 10 list of countries offering broadband.
2) And this gets back to my point about healthcare. If you have to argue and fight for universal healthcare, good luck with universal broadband.Photo: Digital Vision/Getty
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