Bee - I think the misunderstanding was a result your unfortunate placing of high end health care (desirable) in the middle of a list that included tax breaks to wealthy corps. (undesirable) on one end, and paying senators (undesirable) on the other end. It's not that surprising that Metchosin jumped to the conclusion he did. I was going to try to tackle this last night, but it late, and thought it would be better with by you.

"I should have thought the direction of my other comments, i.e., supportive of CBC, the National Gallery, etc., would have made my POV obvious, but apparently not."

It's curious - this is not a criticism, just an observation - that it seems we can more or less predict where someone will stand on the issue of universal health care by their feelings about the CBC and the National Gallery.