"Republicans are left to try to paper over their differences by tinkering with 'community rating,' 'high-risk pools' and other things they barely understand but now have suddenly assigned make-or-break political significance.... But what if a newly elected Republican president eager for a political victory were to utter the unutterable -- to declare that he is willing to acknowledge the right of all Americans to buy all the medical care they need for no more than 15 percent of household income? ... What could a self-styled dealmaker demand from Democrats in return?"

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