Example of conservative health care propaganda
CBS' Harry Smith recently interviewed Barrack Obama. Smith asked Obama if he is “aware of the level of enmity that crosses the airwaves and that people have made part of their daily conversation" about him, including being called a Nazi and socialist.
Obama said, "Well, I think that when you listen to Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck, it's pretty apparent, and it's troublesome, but keep in mind that there have been periods in American history where this kind of vitriol comes out."
The president said, "It happens often when you've got an economy that is making people more anxious, and people are feeling like there is a lot of change that needs to take place. But that's not the vast majority of Americans. I think the vast majority of Americans know that we're trying hard, that I want what's best for the country."
Limbaugh, as usual, overreacted to Obama's comments.
In a response on his radio show, also posted to rushlimbaugh.com, the talk radio king said, “Who has called him a Nazi? Who do we know that has called him a Nazi? Socialist? Yeah. Stalinist? Yeah. Marxist? Yeah. Nazi? We have compared health care in America to what the Nazis tried to do in Germany and get the control of the people going in that regard.”
Of course, Limbaugh's assertion that the Nazis created the German health care program is simply not true.
Germany has Europe's oldest universal health care system, with origins dating back to Otto von Bismarck's Social legislation, which included the Health Insurance Bill of 1883, Accident Insurance Bill of 1884, and Old Age and Disability Insurance Bill of 1889.
As mandatory health insurance, these bills originally applied only to low-income workers and certain government employees; their coverage, and that of subsequent legislation gradually expanded to cover virtually the entire population.
Nearly everyone residing in Germany is guaranteed access to high-quality comprehensive health care. Statutory health insurance called the Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung (GKV) has provided an organizational framework for the delivery of public health care.
In 1885 the GKV provided medical protection for 26 percent of the lower-paid segments of the labor force, or 10 percent of the population.
As with social insurance, health insurance coverage was gradually extended by including ever more occupational groups in the plan and by steadily raising the income ceiling. In 1995 the income ceiling was an annual income between DM70,00 and DM57,600.
source: http://www.germanculture.com.ua/library/facts/bl_health_care_develop.htm and Wikipedia
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