Ezra Klein Finds a Fascinating Chart

He explains below.

You're seeing two things here. The light blue line measures paid sick days. This is what you use if you need to take three days off because you have a fever. The dark blue line is paid sick leave. This is what you use if you need to take three months off because you have cancer. Every other country on the list offers at least one. Most offer both. The United States is alone in guaranteeing neither.

Klein goes on to say "I'm working at a serious newspaper now [WaPo] and so I'm going to try to avoid words like "barbaric" to describe policy decisions I don't like."

No, barbaric is precisely correct. And if people started saying it in "serious" newspapers like the Washington Post, then maybe we could do something about it.

I'm working on a series called American Evil. In it I will examine a different kind of American exceptionalism. One of the focuses will be on our barbaric health care system.