AUDIO: REAGAN ON SOCIALIZED MEDICINE
February 6th, 2010 admin
On Ronald Reagan’s birthday, it seemed appropriate to post this audio of Reagan’s warning against Medicare mission creep. Here’s the money quote: 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. And here’s the audio: He wasn’t wrong. As
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