Yo, Paul Ryan! Atlas Didn't Shrug, She Put Her Hand Out

[Dave Monroe]

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.

Federal records obtained through a Freedom of Information act request
confirm the Social Security benefits. A similar FOI request was unable
to either prove or disprove the Medicare claim.

Between December 1974 and her death in March 1982, Rand collected a
total of $11,002 in monthly Social Security payments. O’Connor
received $2,943 between December 1974 and his death in November
1979.[..]

The couple registered for benefits shortly after Rand, a
two-pack-a-day smoker, had surgery for lung cancer in the summer of
1974. Medicare had been enacted nine years earlier in the Social
Security Act of 1965 to provide health insurance to those age 65 and
older....

http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/yo-paul-ryan-atlas-didnt-shrug-she-pu

Ayn Rand Received Social Security, Medicare

http://www.patiastephens.com/2010/12/05/ayn-rand-received-social-security-medicare/