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what was ronald reagan statement regarding the medicare act?

by Mr. Cale Kemmer Published 2 years ago Updated 1 year ago
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In 1980 President Jimmy Carter, campaigning for re-election against Reagan, told crowds that: "As a traveling salesman for the American Medical Association campaign against Medicare, [Reagan] sowed the fear that Medicare would mean socialism and that it would lead to the destruction of our freedom." When the subject ...

What does Reagan say about the new health care bill?

Summary. Reagan concludes that the new bill is "simply an excuse to bring about what they wanted all the time: socialized medicine.". Reagan warns against the danger of encroaching on the relationship between patients and doctors, and of an attack on doctors' freedoms.

What was Ronald Reagan's health care mandate?

Reagan's healthcare mandate. In 1986, the GOP icon signed a law that requires hospitals to treat poor people and undocumented immigrants. --.

Why take 10 minutes to listen to Reagan warn against Medicare?

The point of asking you to take those 10 minutes is to listen to Reagan warn against the horrors that Medicare portended is to underscore the point of a column I wrote a week ago, under the headline “Expect to see the S-word beaten to a pulp by Election Day 2020.”

Did Ronald Reagan criticize social security in this 10-minute recording?

In this more than ten-minute recording, Reagan "criticized Social Security for supplanting private savings and warned that subsidized medicine would curtail Americans' freedom" and that "pretty soon your son won't decide when he's in school, where he will go or what he will do for a living. He will wait for the government to tell him."

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Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Both sides in the current debate over health care reform are citing this 1961 recording by Ronald Reagan:

Ronald Reagan on Medicare, circa 1961. Prescient rhetoric or familiar alarmist claptrap?

Both sides in the current debate over health care reform are citing this 1961 recording by Ronald Reagan:

What did Reagan say about the new bill?

Reagan concludes that the new bill is "simply an excuse to bring about what they wanted all the time: socialized medicine.". Reagan warns against the danger of encroaching on the relationship between patients and doctors, and of an attack on doctors' freedoms.

What was Ronald Reagan's speech against socialized medicine?

Length. 10:06. Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine is a 1961 LP featuring the actor Ronald Reagan. In this more than ten-minute recording, Reagan "criticized Social Security for supplanting private savings and warned that subsidized medicine would curtail Americans' freedom" and that "pretty soon your son won't decide ...

What did Ronald Reagan say about socialism?

Reagan says "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.".

What did Pat Brown say about Ronald Reagan?

In 1966 Governor Pat Brown, campaigning for re-election against Reagan, said of Reagan's speech about socialized medicine, that Reagan was "an enemy of social progress," who had "hired" out to the American Medical Association. In response, Reagan accused him of "pure demagoguery" in suggesting that California's elderly had reason ...

Who was Ronald Reagan's successor?

Reagan describes Representative Cecil R. King of California as the successor to Congressman Forand in his support for a bill that would provide senior citizens with medical care. (The 1962 King- Anderson bill is often described as a precursor to the Social Security Act of 1965, which established Medicare .)

Who said when the American people wants something from Congress, regardless of its political complexion, if they make their wants known

Reagan quotes Representative Charles A. Halleck of Indiana as having said, "When the American people wants something from Congress, regardless of its political complexion, if they make their wants known, Congress does what the people want.".

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