Reagan on Health Care

It was 1961 when Ronald Reagan warned his fellow Americans of a new government program that would literally spell the end of American freedom should it pass. Here are the late President's words:

“Write those letters now. Call your friends, and tell them to write them. If you don’t, this program I promise you will pass just as surely as the sun will come up tomorrow. And behind it 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 if you don’t do this, and if I don’t do it, 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.”

What monstrous socialist experiment was Reagan warning against? Medicare, the single most popular government program of all time. Medicare was the big “threat to our freedom” that Reagan was referencing. In the words of a fellow blogger on plunderbund.com, "Have you told your children and your children’s children yet that we are no longer free?"