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Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Reagan left the Democratic Party because of John F. Kennedy's liberal ideals. Kennedy is the president who proposed Medicare. Reagan opposed Medicare and called it socialism.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
President John F. Kennedy
Yes, but it was ultimately Johnson who signed it into law. And it is a socialist program, Reagan was right.
It was Kennedy who campaigned on Medicare, and proposed it in the Senate.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gu1HyCeEus]JFK Defending Medicare (1960) - YouTube[/ame]
It was Kennedy who proposed Medicare as President.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiyPejGwQQg]JFK addresses Congress about Medicare - YouTube[/ame]
Medicare is NOT socialism. Medicare is a social insurance program. People PAY into it weekly their whole working lives, it is EARNED!
It has degenerated into a unsustainable, easily exploitable, government failure. It was in the sixties, under Democrat leadership, that Congress was first allowed to plunder social security funds on other programs. If that one action had not happened, and social security funds remained untouched we would not be in this situation perhaps.
Reform is desperately needed. JFK sold Medicare, sincerely, not as an entitlement, but as something people must pay into and earn. It is politicians that have stolen from Americans.