In the early 1960s, as the Kennedy and Johnson administrations worked to enact Medicare and Medicaid, then-actor Ronald Reagan was a spokesman for the American Medical Association. He made a recording that warned of the dangers of the legislation — it was distributed to small gatherings across the country. "Behind it will come other federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country,” said Reagan. “Until one day … 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.” Continue reading
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