Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Ronald Reagan against national health insurance, against a state exchange

Ronald Reagan would be against any exchange which sets up nation health insurance. I would like to quote Ronald Reagan in his radio address on socialized medicine in 1961:
One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It's very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. Most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can't afford it.
Now, the American people, if you put it to them about socialized medicine and gave them a chance to choose, would unhesitatingly vote against it. We had an example of this--Under the Truman administration.
Now in our country under our free enterprise system, we have seen medicine reach the greatest heights that it has in any country in the world. Today, the relationship between patient and doctor in this country is something to be envied any place. The privacy, the care that is given to a person, the right to chose a doctor, the right to go from one doctor to the other.
Behind socialized medicine will come other federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country. Until, one day, ... we will awake to find that we have socialism. And.., one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children, what it once was like in America when men were free." Where is the line at which we say no.
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