A piece of the roof came off with Medicare. Now the whole structure [of American Medicine] is threatened as we knew it would be sooner or later….Some people think that people are entitled to health care as a matter of right, whether they work or not. This is just as absurd as saying that food, clothes, and shelter are a matter of right- one step further than that is a revolutionary system bordering on communism.
Dr. Edward R. Annis, former President of AMA, quoted in the New York Times, referring to Senator Edward Kennedy's push for universal healthcare.
Thursday, October 14, 1971
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