President Reagan weighs in on health care

Reagan talks on health care...he talks about national health insurance, socialized medicine, "sticking a foot in the door"...

Here is a snippet, talking about the dangers of the "slippery slope" inherent in government control of healthcare:

But let's also look from the other side, at the freedom the doctor loses. A doctor would be reluctant to say this. Well, like you, I am only a patient, so I can say it in his behalf. The doctor begins to lose freedoms; it's like telling a lie, and one leads to another. First you decide that the doctor can have so many patients. They are equally divided among the various doctors by the government. But then the doctors aren't equally divided geographically, so a doctor decides he wants to practice in one town and the government has to say to him you can't live in that town, they already have enough doctors. You have to go some place else. And from here it is only a short step to dictating where he will go.  This is a freedom that I wonder whether any of us have the right to take from any human being.

Everyone should listen to this.  Even years after his death, Reagan still leads.