Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill Quotes

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.
283901/01/1949 | Full Details | Law(s): Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill

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.
283801/01/1949 | Full Details | Law(s): Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill

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.

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).