Well congratulations on getting it to work right, but the response to the desire to play a Healer could well be characterized by "It's fine if you want to do it depending on the optimization level, but it's generally a bad tactic." You can argue with the general response and try to convince the general public it's a tactic that works if you want, but it's not precisely what I was talking about.
I was trying to address the systemic problems with some suggested houserules. The suggestion to use the Reach Spell Metamagic to overcome one of these hurdles just makes each other systemic problem worse in practically every way.