Ronald Reagan on Socialized Medicine, circa 1960
Why do we continue to return to the notion that government provided health care is good? This ten minute lecture was an eerie warning of what congress just passed, yet enough time went by for logic to abandon our elected officials. Yes, health care provided by the government will be overbearingly expensive in the form of taxation and the quality will certainly decrease as good DR.s decide to become advisers, lecturers and auto mechanics. But the real blow each of us have already suffered is our loss of liberty. Democrats say in one breath that health care is an unalienable right, and in the next make it mandatory. To call it a ‘right’ alludes to a choice, but by making it a requirement, the liberty to choose is gone, and so is another aspect of our Freedom.
Take the ten minutes or so and listen to what the Gipper had to say over 50 years ago, and then respond as he suggests. America was once the ‘Land of the Free, Home of the Brave’, but we’re watching that phrase wane into history.
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Tags: Health Care, Liberty, Ronald Reagan, Socialized Medicine



















Comment from Bloviating Zeppelin
Time April 19, 2010 at 2:24 pm
He was Right THEN and he’s Right NOW!
BZ