Regan speech against socialized medicine (audio)

[heavenlyboy34]

http://www.askheritage.org/what-did-reagan-think-of-socialized-medicine/?utm_source=AH_Weekly&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=2011-02-04&utm_campaign=2011_Brand

I am not a Reagan fan myself, but I know a lot of you have Conservative friends who may need to be persuaded to oppose socialized medicine/social security. This speech may be useful to you if those you are trying to persuade are particularly vulnerable to appeals to authority. Enjoy! (btw, I agree with the libertarian-ish tone of this speech:cool:)

[emazur]

there's also a "hip" version that has some music in the background - Glenn Beck liked it:
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/29847/

[Zippyjuan]

On the other hand, Reagan did sign legislation to expand Medicare coverage.
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2010/12/a_health_care_b.html

A health care bill to expand Medicare and increase taxes to pay for it passes both the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate by wide margins and is signed by the President. Most people who are paying attention think that, for good or ill, this expansion of government will be with us forever. But just 17 months later, the law is repealed. Whereas it was passed in the House of Representatives by a vote of 328 to 72, the same House, with only a slight change of membership, votes 360 to 66 to repeal the bill. The new President, who, as Vice-President, had urged the President to sign the original bill, now signs the bill to repeal.
The bill described above was the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act, which President Reagan signed into law in June 1988 after it got bipartisan support in the House and Senate. Both the House and Senate repealed it less than two years later.




You can find him on both sides of most issues.

[heavenlyboy34]

On the other hand, Reagan did sign legislation to expand Medicare coverage.
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2010/12/a_health_care_b.html


You can find him on both sides of most issues.

qft. :cool: