But if Americans want to know why Republicans are so eager to kill Medicare, they should look to the party’s history with the popular program. Leading Republicans actually denounced the program as it was being designed, warning that it would take us down the road to totalitarianism or worse, and other leading Republicans were caught on record plotting to eliminate it after it was created:
- Ronald Reagan: [1961]
- Barry Goldwater: [1964]
- George H.W. Bush: [1964]
- Bob Dole: [1965]
- Sen. Carl Curtis (NE): [1965]
- Dick Armey: [1995]
- Newt Gingrich: [1996]
- Rep. Jeb Hensarling (TX): [4/15/2011]
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