Medicare Quotes

Medicare would be strictly a tax program, forcing wage earners to pay a substantial in their payroll taxes to finance hospitalization for everyone over 65, including those who are wealthy and millions of others who are already protected with hospital insurance.

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AMA President Dr. Edward R. Annis.
01/08/1964 | Full Details | Law(s): Medicare

[Federal control of medicine would ] anesthetize [American Medicine] the proud symbol of our competitive system.

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AMA President Dr. George M. Fister.
316411/27/1962 | Full Details | Law(s): Medicare

One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism has been by way of medicine….If you don't do this, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was like in American when men were free.

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From Ronald Reagan’s 1961 taped anti-Medicare message, “Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine” paid for by AMA and AMPAC.
316201/01/1961 | Full Details | Law(s): Medicare

[Medicare will usher in] federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have know it in this country.

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From Ronald Reagan’s 1961 taped anti-Medicare message, “Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine” paid for by AMA and AMPAC.
316101/01/1961 | Full Details | Law(s): Medicare

All of us can see what happens once you establish the precedent that the government can determine a man's working place and his working methods, determine his employment. From here it's a short step to all the rest of socialism, to determining his pay….He will wait for the government to tell him where he will go to work and what he will do.

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From Ronald Reagan’s 1961 taped anti-Medicare message, “Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine” paid for by AMA and AMPAC.
316301/01/1961 | Full Details | Law(s): Medicare

[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.

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From an AMA recording by Ronald Reagan, "Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine."
316501/01/1961 | Full Details | Law(s): Medicare

The doctor begins to lose freedoms; it’s like telling a lie, and one leads to another. First you decide that the doctor can have so many patients. They are equally divided among the various doctors by the government. But then the doctors aren’t equally divided geographically, 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 someplace else. And from here it is only a short step to dictating where he will go.

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Ronald Reagan, 1961.
316601/01/1961 | Full Details | Law(s): Medicare

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