Posted on 09/28/2013 1:20:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Otto von Bismarck, the Chancellor of Germany, and dictatorial in his own right, started socialized healthcare in 1883 with the Reichsversicherungsverordnung or Reich Insurance Act. However, only certain segments of the society were insured at that time, such as government workers and the elderly. It was Adolf Hitler, who actually imposed socialized healthcare on the entire German population, as a part of nazification of the healthcare industry. For that reason, Adolf Hitler should rightly be called the *real* father of universal healthcare. Part of his collective universal healthcare concept was “racial hygiene,” the elimination of certain “undesirable” segments of the society, as life not worth living. This is history that people have largely forgotten, because it is politically incorrect and inconvenient to remember it.
Hitler also literally rolled out, via panzer, his universal healthcare to occupied France, Belgium and the Netherlands — those countries with mainly “Aryan” populations. Hitler’s jackboots put universal healthcare in place in those very countries that he wished to aryanize and perfect, by elimination of physical/mental defects in the populations via sterilization and medical killing.
The point is not that Obama is Hitler, but that universal healthcare gives any government enormous power that can potentially be misused, if the wrong people are in control, not that it is will necessarily be misused at this moment in history exactly as it was in Nazi Germany. This is just much too much power to centralize in the hands of the Government, because governments sometimes go bad. Friedrich A. Hayek, author of “The Road to Serfdom,” stated in his book that the crimes of the Nazis loom so large in our memories that it prevents us from seeing similar trends in our own society.
The first mass murders of the Holocaust were carried out in the socialized German hospitals and the techniques for mass murder were developed there. Several hundred thousand handicapped and mentally ill persons were murdered in Hitler’s universal healthcare system. Retarded and mentally ill children were euthanized and the T4 project did the same for handicapped, mentally ill and elderly adults. In his orders permitting medical killing, Hitler called them “mercy killing” and “lives not worth living.” In this way Germany produced great savings in healthcare, not only due to the extermination of existing patients, but many ill persons (and their families) became too fearful, due to rumors of the killings, to dare check their relatives into the hospitals.
Hitler often did not state openly what he intended exactly to be done, but made his orders intentionally vague and open to interpretation. The perpetrators in the Nazi Reich were made to understand by other, more informal channels what the real intentions of the Fuehrer were. The courts and the police were under government control, so neither his actions nor those of his minions could be challenged.
Robert Jay Lifton, author of “The Nazi Doctors”, points out that the extermination of the Jews and others of different ethnic groups was itself seen as a medical solution, a medical procedure for the collective healing of the Aryan race and the German Nation by elimination of the Jewish infection of Aryan blood. So, the entire Holocaust can be seen as an extension of Hitlercare. From that point of view, it is estimated that about 10 million people were murdered under Hitlercare, including six millions Jews. The Nazi plan for fundamental transformation of Germany and the world was ultimately to exterminate about 25 million Jews and Slavs in Eastern Europe in fulfillment of the so-called “racial hygiene” principle of the extremely-efficient, German universal healthcare system.
Because resources are limited, the concept of universal healthcare requires the Government to make decisions on the distribution of healthcare that will determine the survivability of different groups in society. That is, the welfare of the collective and government priorities are placed above that of the rights of any individual.
Once you have given the Government that much power, there is no natural barrier between you and the Holocaust of the Nazis. It is only a matter of degree, of how far they want to take this concept that social welfare trumps individual rights.
This is the inherent evil of universal healthcare. It gives Government the right to decide life and death for entire classes of society, as opposed to individuals contracting for their own healthcare. This is why Hitler liked universal healthcare so much that he imposed it on conquered countries, not exactly because he was so concerned for the well being of the subjected peoples, but because it gave him the right over entire classes of people to decide who lives and who dies. It gave him the power to engineer the composition of society to his own malicious requirements. Entire classes of people can be eliminated with no judicial process being necessary.
This is also the reason that Obama and others in the Government want universal healthcare so desperately, in order to achieve their own vision of fundamental transformation of America. The socialist elite needs to be able to ignore the rights of the individual to engineer their new utopian society. For that purpose, the same kind of centrally-controlled universal healthcare system that Hitler used is required.
The argument should not be whether universal healthcare works or not, but that it goes against American constitutional principles. It worked great in the Nazi Reich for their purposes. It is a very powerful tool that can be misused in the wrong hands.
The American system was not designed by the Founders with the assumption that the Government will always be a good one, but the Founders thought it most probable, even inevitable, that someday a tyrant would attempt to usurp power in the United States. For that reason they designed a system of checks and balances into the Constitution, which corrupt politicians and arrogant, unprincipled judges have ignored and circumvented more and more in recent decades.
Universal healthcare is not aligned with American founding constitutional principles and requires a very benevolent government in order to function well. However, if the government goes bad, — as many believe ours already has — then, universal healthcare may become a catastrophe, as it was in Nazi Germany, the real birthplace of universal healthcare.
The poor, disadvantaged and minorities are being used to spearhead this drive towards universal healthcare, but they have not always benefited from efforts to “perfect” society, but may experience the opposite. The weakest and most vulnerable have often been targets to be eliminated.
Don’t worry, obamacare will eliminate a lot of “undesirables”. Starting with the elderly and infirm.
the birth place of modern gun registration and confiscation as well. hmmmmm
control production of medical care
control distribution of medical care
control everything
over here
I’ll have to ask my mom about this. She grew up there during the war.
Only thing I don’t quite get - didn’t Lenin advocate it for an entire nation first? Or do they mean that Hitler was the first to do it successfully and the first to actually put it into practice? Of course, having either Hitler and Lenin as the father of universal care would naturally be an awful association for universal health care to have [though depressingly enough, Lenin is thought of as a sort of noble folk hero to tons of people under 30 and those on college campuses of all ages].
I thought #21 was Mickey’s creed?
I just would like to point out that not everyone is under the government care (think about that, all you Veterans, not all of us have government care) and we keep sending more and more jobs overseas.
I for one support Obamacare until the GOP stands up with an alternative plan.
I recognize this puts me in a minority, but there you are.
Yeah, and what did those damned veterans do to deserve government healthcare in the first place? Especially the disabled veterans?
You’ve got me all wrong.
I support the benefits our US veterans get.
I just don’t support cutting off those of us, who did not serve.
That is the problem with this. We’ve got to recognize there are more Republicans than just veterans.
Why does there need to be an alternative?
You support obamacare, why?
Like the higher costs, fewer services, elimination of services, rationing, destruction of jobs, businesses, the government controlling every aspect of your life, interrogations every time you go to the doctor....which part do you like?
I dunno.
American companies are sending jobs to other countries.
We continue to eliminate jobs, I do not think the GOP is going to win over a lot of people, who face uncertainty.
Just saying. You’re covered. And not working.
I’m working, but that is become more of a difficulty all the time.
I say we should bring back US jobs first, frankly.
Yes to ExTexasRedhead.
They mounted a campaign in order to fight the encroachment into their livelihoods.
They dug up a quote from Vladimir Lenin which they used in their advertising.
"The key to Marxism is medicine"
Lenin thought that there was no better way to enslave people than to control their access to medical care.
Everything must be designed to control our bodies, because then the enslavement of our souls becomes a mere formality.
Yes, deciding who lives and who dies, and when. That is the very definition of the usurpation of God's will. Marxists universally attempt to replace God with the State.
And yes, Nazis were Marxists, although of a different stripe than Soviet Marxists. If in doubt, read Nazi propaganda. It speaks for itself.
NAZI = National Socialist Workers Party
You can’t spell NAZI without Socialist
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