On Republicans on Medicare:

I was listening to an article on NPR this morning - they were talking about the efforts made by LBJ to get Medicare off the ground in the 1960s. A very vocal critic of the entire idea was Ronald Reagan, then running for governor of California, who said something to the effect that, "if this awful Socialist idea passes, it would be the end of private healthcare in the US". I'm not completely sure if that comes under the general heading of 'how times do change' or 'what comes around, goes around'.