Title: Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine Source:
[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Mar 9, 2011 Author:Ronald Reagan Post Date:2011-03-09 11:13:53 by A K A Stone Keywords:None Views:5801 Comments:6
First you [the governement] decide that the doctor can have so many patients. ... So a doctor decides he wants to practice in one town, and the government has to say to him, "You can't live in that town, they already have enough doctors, you have to go live somewhere else. And from here it's only a short step to dictating where he will go. Pretty soon your son won't decide when he's in school where he will go or what he will do for a livin [sic], but will wait for the government to tell him where he will go to work and what he will do. ...
And if you don't [stop Medicare] and 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.
Reagan's comments look pretty silly 40 years later, Medicare hasn't provided the results he predicted and is more popular than private health insurance. Even tea partiers want the government to "keep their hands off of my medicare."
So a doctor decides he wants to practice in one town, and the government has to say to him, "You can't live in that town, they already have enough doctors, you have to go live somewhere else.
Private health insurance companies say you can only buy insurance for the state you now live in. Move to another state, lose your insurance.
