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
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 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.
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.
“[U]niversal health care gives any government enormous power that can potentially be misused, if the wrong people are in control.”
The author proceeds to cite Hayek, but does not mention that Hayek also demonstrates with both logic and history that government always attracts to worst sort of people to its highest offices.
The author correctly mentions that the National Socialists did not openly state many of their intentions, and how Hitler’s orders were vague and open to interpretation. In her magnum opus Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt explains that the Nazis had “rigid ‘language rules’ (Sprachregelung)” with prescribed code names for various aspects of the “final solution.” National Socialists and communists cannot achieve their ends without corrupting language. Orwell anticipated the time would come that government had so corrupted language that its subjects would lack the capability of even forming a subversive thought.
In her coverage of the Eichmann trial, Arendt notes with much dismay that the defense often referred to the gassing of people by the millions in the the camps as a “medical matter”.
Just as a point of fact, I suspect you'd find that Lenin was the "*real*" father of universal healthcare.
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