Republicans and conservatives have repeatedly complained that Obamacare amounts to the “government takeover of the U.S. health-care system.” The only problem is it isn't true.
It's fair to say that Obamacare was a meaningful expansion of the role of the federal government in health care. But the real government takeover of U.S. health care took place in 1965, when LBJ signed into law the amendments to the Social Security Act, enacted by bipartisan majorities in Congress, that created Medicare and Medicaid.
