This would be only if you consider the rest of the world as consisting of only of Western Europe and Canada. Once you REALLY take in the rest of the world with people who are generally more conservative (Middle East, East Asia, etc.) it becomes apparently that America really is pretty centered relative to "the rest of the world."

I expected that it wouldn't be long before someone blamed the inadequacies of their own government on the US.

I believe this would be relevant http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2008/05/google-health-privacy-and-hipaa.html