NPR, All Things Considered, April 7, 2009 by Julie Rovner
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102845967
“Medicare was a socialist plot, according to conservatives, when it was proposed in the 1960s, and now it’s as American as apple pie,” he said. “And I hope that the public plan within health care reform, the choice of a public health plan for non-elderly Americans will come to seem as American as apple pie.”