Medicine and Freedom

Just ran across this quote, and I like it:

Nearly fifty years ago now, Ronald Reagan famously crusaded against Medicare, declaring on an AMA sponsored program, that, if Medicare passed, “…one of these days, you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children, and our children’s children, what it once was like in America, when men were free.” Those sunset years are long gone, and here we are, still in America, still free, sky still blue, water still wet.