Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill

Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill

This bill would have instituted a national medical and hospitalization fund, which both workers and their employers would contribute to (much the same as Social Security). Almost everything was covered except dental care and drugs.

Cry Wolf Quotes

Would socialized medicine lead to socialization of other phases of American life? Lenin thought so. He declared: 'Socialized medicine is the keystone to the arch of the Socialist state.'

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AMA pamphlet (Your Medical Program…Compulsory-or Voluntary?) from the AMA’s public relations campaign against health care reform. 1949.

A Government agency proposes to: Collect the tax. Control the money. Set the rules. Determine the services. Direct doctor and patient participation. Dominate every citizen’s medical affairs.

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AMA pamphlet (Your Medical Program…Compulsory-or Voluntary?) from the AMA’s public relations campaign against health care reform. 1949.

I considered it socialism. It is to my mind the most socialistic measure this Congress has ever had before it.

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Senator Robert Taft (R-OH).

Known Communists and fellow travelers within Federal agencies are at work diligently with Federal funds in furtherance of the Moscow party line.

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The conclusion of a House subcommittee investigating government propaganda for health insurance.