Below is an excerpt of an email from a former student describing his interview for medical school at a highly-regarded East Coast university:

Not a particularly friendly interview overall. The discussion transitioned to health care funding. I [the student] noted some severe inefficiencies of the current billing model and that changes must be made for the system to be sustainable. He [the interviewer--a physician] said that nationalized health care solved all those issues nicely, didn't I agree? I (probably winced a bit and) responded that though NHS did solve some funding issues it introduced many other problems and inefficiencies, as demostrated by various studies and also personal anecdotes from my recent 5 months work in London. He responded that Canada's system worked much better, with which I also differed. Trying to conclude, I said that the kind of federal intervention that was needed was standardization of electronic record formats, codes, security procedures, and so forth, and that in fact there is a presidential appointee (David Brailer) and commission working on those things at the moment.

Him: "Good luck with your application, that will be all."

I cannot understand what a question about whether George Bush thinks has to do with a student's fitness for medical school.