The Similar Swiss

Bruce heralded the wisdom of the Swiss in rejecting the Bern central planners fantasy of national healthcare yesterday. It's no surprise to me that the Swiss rejected it. I traveled Switzerland extensively in 2005, and found that no nation in Europe more closely resembled the United States in outlook, including economic, political, and social than this small Alpine nation of only seven million.

Few probably know that Switzerland's Constitution is based on America's. According to Wikipedia:

the national assembly was divided among Ständerat (similar to the Senate in the United States), and the Nationalrat (the U.S. House of Representatives). Thus, the interests of the Federationalists was given account for. Switzerland adopted the use of referenda and a federal constitution in 1848. This constitution provided for a central authority while leaving the cantons the right to self-government on local issues.