Comments on: Audio flashback: Reagan on national health care

By: Trtle2001

Trtle2001 — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 05:20:23 +0000

To respond to omegaram’s post…I just wanted to say, being a medical student, that I have already endured 7 years of education post high school, going on my eighth year, and have gone hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt “just so I can make a PROFIT”. Oh yea, and after this is all over I get to work 80 hour workweeks for 3-5 years for about 10 bucks an hour…sounds like lots of profit to me…then you can start/buy a practice, all the while having to fight insurance companies for reimbursement.

This kind of thinking is problematic, because most Americans do not even begin to understand what it takes to become a physician. The training is very tough, the liscencing tests are incredibly difficult and expensive. I can guarantee you that you would be hard pressed to find many in it “just for profit”. We go into this profession because we want to help people. We are a very altruistic people, who volunteer at free clinics, give away free medication samples, and do missions work around the world. I am proud to soon be able to call myself doctor, it is a great prival this is because I know I will be able to help those in need.

Sorry for the long post/ranting, but this kind of talk is annoying.

By: Dagens Reagan « Dubya Divine

Dagens Reagan « Dubya Divine — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:33:05 +0000

[...] Bonus: Hot Air har plockat fram ett ljudspår från en svunnen tid där Reagan, fortfarande skådespelare i Hollywood, ger ett inspirerande tal om skadorna med socialisering av sjukvård. [...]

By: omegaram

omegaram — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:57:56 +0000

Great Post! We need to hear more of Regan, and perhaps from other great persons from the past, that are relevant to the present.

I am a fan of Regan, but on some things I think he is a bit off the mark. Medicare and Social Security has provided for many beyond it’s original intent. I cannot imagine the pain and suffering many Americans would experience without those programs.

The issue is that Health Insurance companies, and medical providers, are most often more interested in profit than providing medical benefit. Some regulation is necessary to level the playing field, to allow consumers to bargain on an equal basis.

By: Kevin M

Kevin M — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:56:49 +0000

Sorry to triple post (well, at least a little) but OMG this was a great man. If there was ever a good case for cloning, it’s Reagan.

By: Kevin M

Kevin M — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:46:39 +0000

Good Lord, I miss this man.

By: Kevin M

Kevin M — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:41:43 +0000

Listened to this 3 times in a row. Reagan was before my ‘time’, but is a God to me. Thanks AP for the find.

By: Mephistefales

Mephistefales — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:08:12 +0000

Whenever I eat jelly beans I pour a bag on the ground for Ron.

Seriously, though — he’s my favorite political figure of all time.

By: spike

spike — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:33:15 +0000

To think that once just like JFK, he was once a democrat.

By: csdeven

csdeven — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:33:03 +0000

I can only hope.
CrimsonFisted on July 3, 2007 at 5:58 PM

IMHO, fred? is the antithesis of Ronald Reagan.

By: Ben Here

Ben Here — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:27:06 +0000

…Well put, Blitz!. Didn’t read like a ranting/roaming post, at all. More like a passionate post; as was Ronald Reagan’s recording…Maybe the fog will start to clear..The fog that seemed to start in the early part of the 1990′s..Hmmm…The fog that is known as “political correctness”. I knew it was bad when it first reared it’s ugly head. Socialized health care is merely one of it’s symptoms…

By: Blitz

Blitz — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 02:28:42 +0000

May I expound on the greatness of Ron? Well I’m going to whether you like it or not!

1976…a snot nosed “Knows everything” 14 yr old Blitz HATED his country and everything associated with it.

Even though this Blitz kid HATED Jimmah C. he didn’t know why….He grew up with Nixon,and unlike 99.99999999 of the country(according to his parents) he actually liked Nixon..His campaign in elementary school started with…Look,McGovern is a wimp…(This was in MA,not well received)

Anyway,fast forward..Iran happens…Energy crisis….Meat crisis…as far as I knew back then there MAY have been a prostitute crisis,but I’ll leave that for Ace to remember.

Does Anyone here remember the “meat crisis”….Don’t Make Baloney out of my Pony crap??….I was young,can’t remember time frame.

OK,So this RAY GUN comes along,and I’m prepared to hate him too…But as they say, a funny thing happened on the way to the forum…He made a modicum of sense. And THEN USA won gold in hockey at the Olympics(Do you Believe in Miracles…YESSSS)…and THEN the CDB did ‘In America’…and then a small miracle came about…

PEOPLE became proud of America again..not just me,but millions of us. Reagan was the catylyst of a new beginning…a small spark under tinder that was dry and just dying to be ignited. He ignited that spark and tended it quite well. Unfortunately,that’s JUST when the fire extinguishers(Kerry,Kennedy,Fonda,O’Neill,many others) decided that FIRE was the WORST thing in the world,that we should never have invented it and to use it woul be the death or ruin of us all. I didn’t believe that nor did many of YOU….

Today,we still HAVE the spirit of Ronald Reagan running through us, yet we have MORE Fire Extinguishers than ever. We need to LIGHT A FIRE in honor of him. The brighterthe flame,the more moths we’ll attract….

I know this was a ranting/roaming post and I’ll never post here again if you tell me not to,but…I just don’t have the words to put it succintly

By: Zorro

Zorro — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 01:49:48 +0000

Ronald Reagan was one of God’s gifts to America.

I pray there are more to come. God help us and have mercy on us.

stenwin77 on July 3, 2007 at 3:43 PM

God’s Gift indeed! He was the greatest. And he was right, especially on liberalism and socialist being one and the same.

By: GT

GT — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 01:46:47 +0000

voiceofreason on July 3, 2007 at 7:15 PM

I lived through the Carter years. Bush is a hellava lot better than Carter.

By: GT

GT — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 01:44:45 +0000

csdeven on July 3, 2007 at 5:04 PM

Amen!

By: Jezla

Jezla — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:48:48 +0000

That was wonderful. Why don’t people talk like that anymore?

By: TBinSTL

TBinSTL — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:38:16 +0000

Ronald Reagan, Peace be upon Him! ’nuff said.

Wuptdo on July 3, 2007 at 4:54 PM

Prophet of the other great western religion, Americanism!

By: voiceofreason

voiceofreason — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:15:21 +0000

He’s definitely the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time). He brought America back from the void of Carter. If we survived Carter, I feel we can survive almost anything!

Granted, but can we survive Bush?

By: PowWow

PowWow — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:15:10 +0000

What a novel idea. Actually allowing people to vote for something. Socialized (so sorry, Christianized according to Mikey), Shamnesty, Gay Marriage, abortion etc. My first Presidential election was a vote for this man. I’d do it without hesitation and proudly again today. Sadly there are No RR’s today.
We’ve seen what a great jobthe government is doing indoctrinating kids in the schools. When I was in high school we had forced busing, supposedly to make the schools better. My hometown was branded as a town full of racists, (Hmmm, sound familiar?) for wanting to go to neighborhood schools. We were sent across the city, when there were schools that were only a couple of blocks from the house. Vilolence every day. No education going on. Unrelated to health care, but a point to government involvement in what should be a private choice.
Sorry for the long post and rant. And for going off topic a bit

By: SouthernGent

SouthernGent — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:03:55 +0000

He’s definitely the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time). He brought America back from the void of Carter. If we survived Carter, I feel we can survive almost anything!

By: Blight

Blight — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:53:28 +0000

In today’s day and age we first learn that we are not able to do anything on our own in school, whether it is to go to the bathroom or eat lunch or the quality of our work. We are taught that someone else will judge our work – on a completely arbitrary basis – and nothing we do matters. Twelve years of indoctrination that the government will take care of you – that only the government can take care of you – primes the student for socialism so that he/she can not even begin to imagine that there is another – a better – way of life. They choose to give up freedom because they have never truly known freedom; it was slowly beaten out of them. Our attention spans have shortened to about five seconds, our dissatisfaction levels are extremely high, men aren’t allowed to be men – in fact they are encouraged not to be, and if that doesn’t work they are drugged (ADD anyone?) We are kept at an infantile state, unable – and unwilling – to be responsible for ourselves. “We” is not exactly the right term, but in general, the American people – and that is the goal of liberalism – to create sheeple, docile and empty. While there are still those that fight and rail against the indoctrination, too many allow themselves to be led, straight to socialism. It’s extremely depressing that anyone willingly gives up freedom for perceived security, especially when the perceived security will be the death of all that is great.

By: CrimsonFisted

CrimsonFisted — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:58:16 +0000

This is a wonderful speech. When it comes to the debates, and Hillary is the shrieking nominee and is debating (I think Fred!) these words that Reagan is speaking in this clip, could come back to bite her. Hard.

I can only hope.

By: jaime

jaime — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:40:38 +0000

Every once in a while I’m reminded how great Reagan was.

He was right on target about the rise of the nanny-state through liberalism. The thing he didn’t see was that it would be accomplished by a pervasive victim mentality.

By: csdeven

csdeven — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:04:12 +0000

Ronnie’s vision was years ahead of his time.

It’s sickening for anyone to be compared to Ron. He was one of a kind and spoke plain and passionately. You’ll find no contrived image when studying him. He didn’t need to be something to everyone. He was what he was and didn’t fake it. People across ideological lines put aside a lot of their ideas and followed his. A true leader.

He was the greatest modern day president and every other president will be held to his standard.

By: Wuptdo

Wuptdo — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:54:01 +0000

Ronald Reagan, Peace be upon Him! ’nuff said.

By: stacman

stacman — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:53:34 +0000

I sure wish I had been old enough, and politically caring enough to appreciate the man while he was president. Better late than never, in hindsight I see what a great man and president he was.

He will forever be missed!