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This might be of interest:
Obama wasn't the first Bolshevik to support socialized medicine. For context, there was Henry Sigerist: "He devoted himself to the study of history of medicine.
Socialized Medicine in the Soviet Union(1937), and
History of Medicinewere among his most important works. He emerged as a major spokesman for "compulsory health insurance". ...He attacked the
American Medical Associationbecause of his conflicting views on
socialized medicine."
Henry E. Sigerist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a. And, Sigerist was one of the apologists for Stalin, including his state-engineered famine in the Ukraine. 7 million perished (
The History Place - Genocide in the 20th Century: Stalin's Forced Famine 1932-33).
b. Sigerist "shared with the architects of Soviet health policy under Stalin an outlook best described as
medical totalitarianism. He really believed that humanity would be better off if every individual were under the medical supervision of the state from cradle to grave....[and] Sigerist's belief in the necessity for state control over all aspects of medicine ultimately made him an apologist for state control over most aspects of human life."
Fee and Brown, eds. "Making Medical History: The Life and Times of Henry E. Sigerist," p. 252
Nor am I denying big government's attachment to industry....i.e., crony capitalism.