• Text smaller   • Text bigger   With the official launching of
Obamacare on Oct. 1, I ask, who is the real father of universal
health care? Otto von Bismarck, the chancellor of Germany
(1871-90), established the world’s first welfare state in
Germany. In 1883, von Bismarck established socialized health
care in Germany with the Reichsversicherungsverordnung, or the
Reich Insurance Act, which was limited to government bureaucrats
and the elderly. Bismarck’s institution of socialized health
care was designed to co-opt the increasing popularity of Marxist
socialism and implement its anti-God, anti-capitalism ideas
spreading throughout Europe in the late 1800s.  One aspect of
Hitler’s socialist universal health-care model was “racial
hygiene,” the removal of certain “undesirable” segments of
society who are judged beneath the Aryan ideal, thus “life
unworthy of existence,” as Hitler would repeatedly say. Using
his brutal panzer divisions, Hitler literally rolled out his
universal health care throughout occupied F