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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (239319)	12/4/2013 8:28:54 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 542164

My main argument all along has been that health care does not fit the Capitalistic paradigm. As you know, this is one of the points on which we completely agree. It leads to something like a single payer system but could fit within a heavily regulated private sector healthcare system. If you are interested, the best place I've seen that argument made is in the work of Michael Walzer. His book Spheres of Justice makes the best case I've seen for thinking of limits to economic principles in schooling, health, safety nets, and the like. It's a bit tough sledding--much easier than Rawls but that's very weak praise--but chapter 3 on security and welfare, in which medical care is one of the foci, and chapter 8 on education might be good places to start to see if the argument interests you.