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Ayn Rand Received Social Security, Medicare
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Contributor | Servo |
Last Edited | Servo Jan 27, 2011 07:52pm |
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Author | Patia Stephens |
News Date | Monday, December 6, 2010 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
Description | Critics of Social Security and Medicare frequently invoke the words and ideals of author and philosopher Ayn Rand, one of the fiercest critics of federal insurance programs. But a little-known fact is that Ayn Rand herself collected Social Security. She may also have received Medicare benefits.
An interview recently surfaced that was conducted in 1998 by the Ayn Rand Institute with a social worker who says she helped Rand and her husband, Frank O’Connor, sign up for Social Security and Medicare in 1974. |
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