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Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine is a 1961 LP featuring the actor and future U.S. president Ronald Reagan.In this ten-minute recording, Reagan "criticized Social Security for supplanting private savings and warned that subsidized medicine would curtail Americans' freedom" and that "pretty soon your son won't decide when he's in school, where he will go or what he will do ...
When the term "socialized medicine" first appeared in the United States in the early 20th century, it bore no negative connotations. Otto P. Geier, chairman of the Preventive Medicine Section of the American Medical Association, was quoted in The New York Times in 1917 as praising socialized medicine as a way to "discover disease in its incipiency", help end "venereal diseases, alcoholism ...
A $375-million deal with Eli Lilly highlights the role of government in developing a COVID-19 vaccine or treatment. It's also an example of socialized medicine in action.
In 2007, Gordon H. Guyatt et al. conducted a meta-analysis, or systematic review, of all studies that compared health outcomes for similar conditions in Canada and the U.S., in Open Medicine, an open-access peer-reviewed Canadian medical journal. They concluded, "Available studies suggest that health outcomes may be superior in patients cared ...
Socialized medicine is not something to be feared; it is a program that could alleviate physical, emotional and financial pain for millions of Americans. If only the United States could catch up ...
The Free Market Cure is a series of four short documentary films, each of which tells a separate story about the failure of socialized medicine in each of the subjects' lives. The films focus on the " single-payer " system as seen in Canada , the likes of which have been advocated by other filmmakers, such as Michael Moore in his film Sicko .
It's like $58/month from my wife's pension for the both of us. I mean, socialized medicine WILL work in this country, The companies just don't want it to. ... Definitely not as bad as others for ...
There’s no single explanation for why addiction treatment is mired in a kind of scientific dark age, why addicts are denied the help that modern medicine can offer. Family doctors tend to see addicts as a nuisance or a liability and don’t want them crowding their waiting rooms. In American culture, self-help runs deep.