Medicare, Socialism, and the Yoke of European Dictatorship by UC Health Humanities Press

July 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the enactment of the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Being a presidential election year in America, the government's role in healthcare provision is again in debate, and familiar warnings about national health insurance and "socialism" are being waged. In this podcast, Dr. Brian Dolan takes a look at the history of the rhetoric about healthcare and socialism and seeks to illustrate how rhetoric influences reality.