Healthcare Part I: Ben Franklin & Bolshevism

Why is socialized medicine a bad thing for America? Why is it a bad idea to put government in charge of people’s healthcare?Ronald Reagan warned Americans about socialized medicine in the 1960s. He warned that it was one of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism. It’s very easy, he warned, to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. However, turning over control of one’s healthcare to a government entity delivers a severe blow to individual freedo