The Working Class Republican by Henry Olsen

Author:Henry Olsen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-06-27T04:00:00+00:00

This was not an idea endorsed by all conservatives then, as we saw with Steffgen’s opposition to Medicaid as itself “socialized medicine” in the last chapter. For Reagan, taxing Peter to pay for Paul’s health care was all right so long as Paul really needed it.

This remained Reagan’s view even as he was on the verge of announcing his 1980 presidential candidacy. Reagan wrote a letter in mid-1979 to Professor Vsevolod Nikolaev, a Russian American who had written him about his views on health insurance and Social Security. Reagan replied:

While I am opposed to socialized medicine, I have always felt that medical care should be available for those who cannot otherwise afford it. I have been looking into a program whereby government might pay for the premiums for health insurance for those who cannot afford it and, at the same time, make such premiums for others a tax credit or deduction, preferably a credit to encourage more use of private health insurance. There is also the problem of insurance for those catastrophic cases where the medical care goes on for years at a tremendously high cost. I proposed a form of government insurance for that in California when I was governor, but we couldn’t get any legislative support for it. I do believe this is a particular problem which must be faced and where government could have a hand.84

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