The Gipper On Socialized Medicine Part I

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Part I.

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[drummer703]

RI.P. Ronald Reagan. You were the best president we've had.

[edchuckndoug]

unitl they deny your cancer medicine that cost $2000 that they paid for last month, wonderful wonderful medicine for profit, never get better if its for profit

[Nightstalker1968]

@edchuckndoug theres nothing wrong w making profit. thats why americans have the highest standard of living in the entire world & the very best medical technology, why else would they spend billions of their own $ to find and spend yrs to research these lifesaving drugs because when they do get lucky and one drug out of thouands they work on succeeds they can hold a patent for up to 11 yrs to make their lost money back.

[Nightstalker1968]

@edchuckndoug 2011-obamacare laws went into effect on generic drugs to limit cost. many generic cancer drugs became impossible to produce & make any profit.solution is easy they all stopped making them.remaining stock of the drugs was bought up by resellers out of US.hospitals here are buying up the very last of it now at outrageous cost. wont matter once obamacare takes full effect cancer will get death counseling

[juxtn]

This is so very interesting that Reagan made this recording in 1961 to discourage support for Medicare for the elderly that finally passed in 1965. Then in 1988, President Reagan tried to pass "100-360, Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act" that would have greatly expanded the benefits of Medicaid/ Medicare including paying for seniors' drugs and this was to be funded by additional medicare taxes, progressive to income even! Gee Whiz! Ron must of had a change of heart about government healthcare!

[kamajiboy]

no free health care to illegal immigrants

[cajayson8301]

Well, I am a Democrat and have been registered with the party for about five years and I will admit they are not perfect...but they certainly understand issues much better than the braindead neocons.

BTW, THANK YOU for responding maturely. As you can see, the one I responded to does not have a mature bone in her body. Debates always start with messages like yours-being respectful and polite.

[JoeNietzsche]

It is amusing how conservatives and would-be free market adherents habitually overlook the anti-democratic nature of unpopular decisions and defend totalitarian institutions such as corporations all while thinking they are trumpeting the virtues of democracy and freedom, respectively. Not that liberals are much better but at least their self deception lies in omission rather than both that and outright fabrication.

[cajayson8301]

he may have made some unpopular decisions>>> Not only unpopular but illegal and impeachable (re: Iran-Contra)

he still believed in the Free Enterprise system!!!>>> He believed in making the rich richer and the poor poorer. How else to explain his tax cuts, to the wealthy, and unemployment and homeless rates rising while he was POTUS?

[cajayson8301]

You must have been brainwashed by your "dumbed-down" parents.>>> Not at all. I researched Reagan and he was nothing more than an idiot and all he did, for eight years in The White House, was do what he did best-ACT like a politician, not BE one!

Because if you claim to be 25 yrs old, you weren't even born until Reagan's second administration.>>> Do the math right. I was born in 83, per my name. That means I was born in the middle of his first term