Link to Harry Reid’s Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/SenatorReid/status/384826839350251520/photo/1
Been carrying this in my wallet a long time. It shows you how long Republicans have been wrong about health care.
The quotes are from Bob Dole, Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey. If you can’t read them from the image here they are:
“I was there, fighting the fight, one of twelve, voting against Medicare, because we knew it wouldn’t work in 1965.” – Sen. Bob Dole
“Now we didn’t get rid of it in round one because we didn’t think it politically smart … But we believe (Medicare) is going to wither on the vine.” – House Speaker Newt Gingrich
“Medicare has no place in a free world. Social Security is a rotten trick … I think we’re going to have to bite the bullet on Social Security and phase it out over time.” – House Majority Leader Dick Armey
Says it all, doesn’t it?
Yes, but the decades of GOP fighting against the reality of Medicare stopped any rational move towards national health care. That time was productively used to privatize a large number of public hospitals and starve those that remained and stymie all efforts in low-cost, primary, public health care sector. Leaving us with a high cost medical provider system that is also at the primary health care level too small by 20 to 25%. Had Medicare for all been enacted in 1970, health care today would consume less than 14% of GDP; instead we’re likely looking at 20% if we’re lucky.
On the taxpayers dime (and before ACA), the US outspent other countries with UHC. And keep in mind that the 65+ percentage of the population in almost all of those “other countries” is larger than that of the US. IOW, we pay for UHC but don’t include everyone and personally and/or through our employers more than double (on a per capita basis that includes all those that get little to no health care) the portion government funded portion.
And what does that covered portion of the population get for more than $8,500/person/year? An extraordinary number of hospitalizations for congestive heart failure and comparable life expectancy (if the numbers in the US excluded those without health insurance that have less access to medical care at birth and mid-life).
The inflation rate chart for health care in the US since 1960 tracks tells the story of how we got here.
They hated it before they hated it.
I kinda wish Reid pulled out the Alf Landon quotes. Priceless stuff. They’ve hated on Social Security since the beginning.
The guy’s name is Dick Armey.
I mean, come on, how could he NOT be a total piece of shit fascist douchebag?
I am on their side on this issue. It will not work in a free world.
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Well I guess we haven’t had a free world for 48 years because it works.
that looks like a bot spam comment, notice the link
Yeah, I had checked it out before replying. Since the text was on the subject, I replied anyway.
And there are always Democrats like Kent Conrad and Barack Obama that agree with them.
Prophet:
Meanwhile, in history…
THAT Romney could have been elected in 2012. Too bad for him that he sold his soul.
Yes, holding up a tattered, illegible newspaper clipping of indeterminate date quoting ancient Repubs unknown to 75% of the electorate is what Harry Reid thinks is “calling out” today’s Repub traitors.
That’s a big part of the problem.
I guess I’m in the other 25% because I recognized all those names.
Context.
Republicans have always been wrong about healthcare.
Has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of the tattered paper, the names on that paper, or the dates the quotes were made.
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