Comments on: Listen to Reagan Shilling for the AMA in 1961, Attacking Medicare As ‘Socialized Medicine’

By: History will judge health-reform doom and gloom as so much fuss and feathers « Trends

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:45:47 +0000

[...] a wonderful 1961 recording on the Internet (here, with a transcript) of Reagan opposing a health care program for seniors. Why? Because, he said, it would soon tell [...]

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History Then and History Now » Tag End — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:32:17 +0000

[...] a wonderful 1961 recording on the Internet (here, with a transcript) of Reagan opposing a health care program for seniors. Why? Because, he said, it would soon tell [...]

By: Riley

Riley — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:56:43 +0000

I have been searching high and low for “Congressman Ferrand,” and I don’t think he exists. It looks kind of like whoever wrote this speech for Reagan invented Ferrand — and the “foot in the door” quote — to set up a socialist bogeyman.

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Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:43:15 +0000

[...] of you know that Ronald Reagan recorded a speech for the AMA back in the 60’s which was distributed to be played at coffee parties. If you [...]