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To: Lane3 who wrote (52069)	3/6/2008 11:43:51 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540882

Standards of victimhood escalate with each success for absolutist egalitarians. I have no doubt that if one is opposed to covering the uninsured, there is always one more problem that can be brought forward to keep it from happening. However, I continue to believe that if the political rhetoric shifts more toward covering all, we will find ourselves inundated with any number of new plans that will address each of these issues. Our big problem, I repeat, is not the tweaks that fascinate you; it's our inability to do serious policy work at the congressional level because of the huge role the business lobby now plays. I'm hopeful that can be backed off a bit if Obama gets elected. But insuring the uninsured or assisting the underinsured to have better health care via single payer systems is not egalitarianism. It's providing a floor. I can't imagine a system under which folk who wish more coverage will not be able to get it.