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To: Lane3 who wrote (60920)	4/23/2008 11:24:43 AM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542597

Oh, I agree....always have agreed with your cautionary statements. Change of any kind has the inherent risk of blowback. With single-payer healthcare, I believe it could be made to work out over time....if somebody would work at it. Republicans have been in charge for so long and this group doesn't believe in government. They campaign on govt. is too big, is wasteful, is incompetent, is a beast to be starved, can't be trusted with your money. Then they get elected and prove these complaints to be true. What else could they do? When you run an anti-government campaign, you can't then govern in such a way as too make government more efficient and less incompetent, can you? Democrats, however, believe the opposite. They believe government has certain roles in society and their elected officials come into office with the mind-set that they will make government 'work'. So I, too, believe that a Democratic body could structure and implement a successful single-payer health insurance program, if they had the public understanding and support to make this bold move.