Where was this curious place that guaranteed healthcare and social security?

I am reading a book called Psychiatric Slavery, which is about psychiatry more than anything else, but it has an absolutely classic quote in it.

In 1950, Dean Russell wrote

Many present-day Americans are trying to avoid this personal responsibility that is freedom.  They are voting for men who promise to install a system of compulsory, government-guaranteed “security” — a partial return to the slave laws of Georgia that guaranteed all slaves “the right to food and raiment, to kind attention when sick, to maintenance in old age…”  Just as the law once guaranteed “adequate” medical care for American slaves, so a law to guarantee medical care for all Americans is being demanded today.  And who will determine what is adequate medical care for a person?