You think the Obamacare fight is ugly?
A reminder of how awful the fights were on Social Security and Medicare.
(But no one then was threatening to blow up the world's economy.)
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101056492
They said one program would end freedom in America, and worried that another was akin to socialism.
No, we're not talking about aspects of the Affordable Care Act.
If you think politicians are up in arms about the upcoming launch of Obamacare, you must not be old enough to remember the name-calling and dire predictions that predicated the introduction of two other major legislative milestones: Medicare and Social Security.
"There is a history around these government programs of controversy, of fear, of partisan division and ideological debates," said Jonathan Oberlander, a professor of health policy and management at the University of North Carolina.
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