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Liberals complain Reagan quote is misused in health debate

(The following is from Media Matters, a liberal media watchdog)

On August 14, the Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, and O'Reilly Factor guest host Laura Ingraham featured a recording of Ronald Reagan speaking in 1961 against"socialized medicine" for the American Medical Association's Operation Coffee Cup Campaign against Medicare. Neither Drudge, Limbaugh, nor Ingraham, however, noted that Reagan was speaking out against an early version of Medicare, which has become very popular since it was enacted 44 years ago, or that Reagan's dire predictions of curtailments of freedom were never realized...

Reagan's 1961 missive was against Medicare's precursor legislation

Reagan's 1961 message was recorded as part of the American Medical Association's"Operation Coffee Cup," the goal of which"was to defeat legislation called King-Anderson, a congressional health care bill designed to assist older Americans that, in a watered-down version, ultimately came into being as Medicare." In the recording, Reagan warned that if the bill were passed, doctors would be told by the government where to live and where to practice, and that"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."...
Read entire article at Media Matters