One casualty in the attacks against expanding health insurance is perhaps the most popular federal program ever created: Medicare. Foes are careful not to say it too directly, but the implication is that the retiree insurance program exemplifies what's wrong with government-run health care. And the daughter of the president who created Medicare is fed up with that argument.
Here's Lynda Bird Johnson Robb in a video message to a retiree group on Medicare, which was signed into law by her father, Lyndon Johnson, in 1965:
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