[quote=spdrun]
Interesting question to anyone who was around in the 60s — did Conservatives scream as loudly when Medicare and Medicaid came into existence?[/quote]
I was around, but I was a little kid for most of the 60’s. But I also know that conservatives did holler and whine about medicare. Famous quote from a then B movie actor/wannabe politician claimed it would lead to….
From here it’s a short step to all the rest of socialism, to determining his pay and pretty soon your son won’t decide when he’s in school where he will go or what he will do for a living. He will wait for the government to tell him where he will go to work and what he will do.
The AMA also strenuously opposed medicare. It turned being a medical doctor from a good paying profession into one of the very best. No group benefitted more.
