The HealthCare Reform Disguise

Wanted to share an excerpt from a talk on "Socialized Medicine" by Aaron M. Sargent, member of the San Francisco Bar (sometime in mid 1900's), found in 'Vital Speeches' Volume XV, Number 10.

"You had better think about the effect of all this on the morale of our people. Every time we lead men to believe they can get something for nothing, we bring them closer to dictatorship. Lenin said 'socialized medicine is the keystone to the arch of the socialist state.'

"No, the key people in these communist fronts realize that compulsory health insurance will bankrupt the United States, as it has exhausted the finances of every nation which has tried that experiment. They know disorder will follow - that we will become disunited. and they know something else - they realize that controls established under that system will be available to set up a dictatorship.

"Social security is the greatest delusion of our time. We have come to believe we can get security without working for it - that it is only necessary to vote for it. The people of another great nation went to destruction because of their belief in that delusion. they voted for a promise of their leader. He said: 'We shall banish want. We shall banish fear. The essence of National socialism is human welfare. National socialism means a new day of abundance at home, and a better world abroad.' Those are the words of Adolf Hitler, and that is the delusion.

"What does America intend to do about its own delusion? What do you propose to do about it?"