| Chris Hu said: The Nazi's had nothing to do with the health care system during the Third Reich. The healthcare system that is currently in place in Germany goes back to the 1880's. Plus its not that socialist since its a multi-payer health care system. Most socialists, progressives and people on the left are in favor of a single payer healthcare system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Germany |
"The healthcare system that is currently in place in Germany goes back to the 1880's."
and your point is? did i say that hitler implemented the system or that it was one of his policies?
does the fact that the system already existed change the fact that it was one of his socialist goal?
"In the late 1800s, the new German state under Otto von Bismarck ushered in a “welfare monarchy.” It gave German citizens universal health care coverage as well as disability insurance. It may sound like a generous, sweeping policy. But it was not all innocent or benevolent.
The German government had ulterior motives. (As the United States government does today.) Ultimately, a healthy society costs less.
The German government wanted to keep its population healthy, productive, and fit for warfare. They literally wanted their citizens “fit to fight.”
Bismarck also said, “a little socialism would prevent the development of a more virulent socialism.” Of course, Germany eventually produced the most virulent form of National Socialism the world has ever known–Nazism.
After the monarchy collapsed following WWI in 1919, the new German government implemented even more sweeping healthcare reforms. Doctors went to work for the government. And no longer for the individual patient. (Remember this, the next time you hear about the merits of Obamacare.)"
and hitler did not peel back these reforms because he was a socialist
"Plus its not that socialist since its a multi-payer health care system."
which was not the case in nazi germany... which is what i was referring to
Last edited by o_O.Q - on 16 April 2018
