"The Lash of the Dictator"

"The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page predicts that the legislation will lead to 'deteriorating service.' Business groups warn that Washington bureaucrats will invade 'the privacy of the examination room,' that we are on the road to rationed care and that patients will lose the 'freedom to choose their own doctor.'
"All dire—but also wrong. Those forecasts date not from this year, but from the battle over Medicare in the early 1960s."

Nicholas D. Kristof in The New York Times revisits debates over adopting Social Security and Medicare.

And, via YouTube, Ronald Reagan denounces "Socialized Medicine" in 1961.