Posted on YouTube by Wyatt McIntyre: From the 1961 Operation Coffee Cup Campaign against Socialized Medicine as proposed by the Democrats, then a private citizen Ronald Reagan speaks out against socialized medicine. There is no video because this was an LP sent out by the American Medical Association.
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Data presented in an earlier video post Uninsured in America:
Claim: 45 million Americans are uninsured
- 17 million live in households with yearly average incomes of $50,000 (38%)
- 9 million live in households with yearly average incomes of $75,000
- 18 million are the "Young Invincibles," age 18-34 who spend 4 times as much on alcohol, tobacco, entertainment and dining out as they would spend on health insurance (40%)
- 14 million of the uninsured are eligible for Medicade or SCHIP but choose to opt out (31%)
- 12 million illegal immigrants have no health care insurance but cannot be turned away from health care
- With "Compassionate Entry," Mexican citizens living in Mexico can receive free health care in border states
Claim: The numbers of "Uninsured in America" are exaggerated by advocates of universal (or nationalized) health care. Read More......
