During the health care reform debate in 2009, opponents of what is now commonly called Obamacare, called the new law socialism. Political pundits will never forget images of anti-Obama, Tea Party supporters carrying signs that said, keep your government hands off my Medicare.
But many of the people protesting against government control of Medicare didn't know that it was and always had been a government-controlled program.
Even today, many of the people receiving Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits insist that they are not getting any government assistance, according to polling data.
How can so many people be convinced of something that is so completely false?
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