Conservatives "bitterly opposed" efforts to provide elderly Americans with access to health care. Ronald Reagan argued in 1961 that if Medicare wasn't stopped, "one of these days 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." George H. W. Bush called the plan "socialized medicine," and Barry Goldwater asked, "having given our pensioners their medical care in kind. . . why not a ration of cigarettes for those who smoke and of beer for those who drink?"
link: UNDERNEWS: MEDICARE- 44 YEARS OF SUCCESS
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