You are carrying them!
A child with birth defects who lives to be 60 will cost 50,000 Reichsmarks over its lifetime.
I think it's obvious that the nazis used the healthcare system as a control. At least, it was only one level of control. The bundespost(their version of the FCC) was another level of it via Goebbels and his propaganda.
There were very few willing to join the banner of the black, red, and gold or white rose, and fee who did join lived to tell there tale.
They weren't simply denied care, they were deliberately exterminated.
I suspect that the Germans were already pre-conditioned for it from living under the paternalistic state as set up by Bismarck.
I would think that in 1938, Hitler had a higher approval rating than Obama does today. Hitler was cheered for bringing Germany out of a depression and putting people to work. Today, Obama is getting us in a depression and putting people out of work.
Now, of course, in 1939 and after, Hitler’s approval rating was going down.
All medicine was private in the thirties, just as in the US. There were no social programs, no healthcare taxes, no healthcare insurance, etc. Each person and his family were accountable for the best care they could personally find, and the govt. had no participation in the training or control of anything medical.
It seems to me, off the cuff, that the Germans had no reason to expect the govt. to become involved in medicine at all, and, when it did, they accepted it as part of their new Nazi prosperity.
The Jewish viewpoint can be expected to have been more anticipatory of what German govt. intrusion into medicine might mean for them. I think the exodus prior to 1939 related to existential issues rather than healthcare issues.
However, I have read nothing on this question. It is a good one.
Apples and oranges. In 1938 medical care was largely palliative. The Germans in 1938 didn’t have nearly as much to lose with state controlled health care as we do today.
Yes. Starting five years ago, we made changes to the way we get healthcare.
I’m not sure about the average German citizen but they did have people smart enough to look around and saw what was happening, and sacrificed their lives trying to stop the madness going on around them.
They called themselves, The White Rose.
Here is a GREAT movie about them.
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
Sophie Scholl was arrested and then executed by guillotine by the Third Reich for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets at her college campus. For this she was beheaded along with several of the other brave young God fearing people of the “White Rose”, an underground Nazi resistance movement. This is a dramatization of that event, it is a movie that will not leave you and will have you thinking about it for days after viewing.
Watch the Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM5A4ETW_Io
The White Rose
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkoJgPkFoDs&feature=related
That’s why some consider Hitler a “great leader”. (Despite his evilness).
You are carrying them!
A child with birth defects who lives to be 60 will cost 50,000 Reichsmarks over its lifetime.
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The German citizens of the 1930s didn't have a previous, highly-publicized example from which to recognize the emerging patterns of behavior from their government as the prelude to extreme tyranny and eventually genocide.
We do have those examples available today; highly publicized, widely available historical patterns of behavior of collectivist regimes such as the NAZIs, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Robert Mugabe, Hillary Clinton, Hugo Chavez, Achmedinejad, Kim Jong Il, Raila Odinga, Barak Obama, etc., etc.
Some just haven't finished running their course, yet.