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To: JohnM who wrote (10500)	2/1/2006 1:50:08 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541487

Depends on the context. I take your point, but it seems to me that any government act that redistributes income from the haves to the have nots has a distinctly socialistic character even if you wouldn't call the macro scenario socialism. From each...to each is Marx 101. Your asserting that "socialized" is something other than that looks like spinning to avoid the stigma of socialism more than an objective assessment. I f you could reasonably argue that socialized medicine is not intentionally redistributionist but merely the best way of delivering medicine I might be more receptive but socialized medicine is being pushed as a way to get health care to those who don't have insurance.