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To: Lane3 who wrote (14601)	3/13/2006 11:36:49 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 542970

What you say is, no doubt, true if you and/or I were outlining legislative proposals. But I don't think there's any need for that in these thread forums. I'm not interested in a position that I will take no matter what concerns are raised; rather I'm simply looking at tentative places to think about campaign financing. Ditto for health care. Do I favor public campaign financing? Most certainly. Do I think it can be implemented in its purest forms? Not a chance. At what point would it be so compromised by compromise that I would bail out? I have not the slightest idea. But I'm willing to think about it. Ditto for single payer health care systems. And, if you will read Krugman's longish piece, you'll see he has some arguments, near the end, that are intriguing, for genuinely socialized medicine, in which health care providers are employed by the state. I haven't thought about that at all. But it's worth taking a look at. Given where we are at the moment.