{"id":8414,"date":"2009-08-05T10:12:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T17:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8414"},"modified":"2009-08-05T10:12:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T17:12:45","slug":"cartoon-socialized-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8414","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: Socialized Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leftycartoons.com\/socialized-medicine\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/socialized_medicine.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"socialized_medicine\" width=\"500\" height=\"484\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/socialized_medicine.png 500w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/socialized_medicine-300x290.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click on the cartoon to see a larger version.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs\">listen to Reagan&#8217;s speech here<\/a>, and see I&#8217;m not exaggerating (he begins talking about loss of freedoms for doctors at about six minutes, and predicts total fascism at around seven minutes). Listening to it, it&#8217;s interesting how little the debate has changed between 1961 and today.<\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s true, as Reagan claims, that the idea behind Medicare was to take a first step that would inevitably lead to socialized medicine for all citizens, then <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/ezra-klein\/2009\/08\/the_problem_with_seniors.html\">boy did that plan backfire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click on the cartoon to see a larger version. You can listen to Reagan&#8217;s speech here, and see I&#8217;m not exaggerating (he begins talking about loss of freedoms for doctors at about six minutes, and predicts total fascism at around &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8414\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics","category-health-care-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}