Same bullsht we've been hearing from the Right since the 1930's.
This is what they said about Social security and Medicare.
Nicholas Kristoff - New York times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/op...ml?ref=opinion
Daniel Reed, a Republican representative from New York, predicted that with Social Security,
Americans would come to feel “the lash of the dictator.” Senator Daniel Hastings, a Delaware Republican, declared that
Social Security would “end the progress of a great country.”John Taber, a Republican representative from New York, went further and said of Social Security:
“Never in the history of the world has any measure been brought here so insidiously designed as to prevent business recovery, to enslave workers.”.
Similar, ferocious hyperbole was unleashed on the proposal for Medicare. President John Kennedy and later President Lyndon Johnson pushed for a government health program for the elderly, but conservatives bitterly denounced the proposal as socialism, as a plan for bureaucrats to make medical decisions, as a means to ration health care.
The American Medical Association was vehement, with Dr. Donovan Ward, the head of the A.M.A. in 1965, declaring that
“a deterioration in the quality of care is inescapable.” The president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons went further and suggested that for doctors to cooperate with Medicare would be
“complicity in evil.”
The Wall Street Journal warned darkly in editorials in 1965 that Medicare amounted to “politicking with a nation’s health.” It quoted a British surgeon as saying that in Britain, government health care was
“crumbling to utter ruin” and suggested that the United States might be heading in the same direction.
“The basic concerns and arguments were the same” in 1935 against Social Security, in 1965 against Medicare, and today against universal coverage, said Nancy J. Altman, author of “The Battle for Social Security,” a history of the program. (The quotes against Social Security above were taken from that book.)
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