Democratic Lawmaker Steve Cohen Invokes the Holocaust to Prove Political Point

Here are his remarks which are pretty reprehensible by any measure:

They [Republicans] say it's a government takeover of health care -- a big lie just like Goebbels. You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, and eventually, people believe it. Like blood libel. That's the same kind of thing.

Germans said enough about the Jews and people believed it — believed it and you have the Holocaust. We heard on this floor -- government takeover of health care.

Yup he just used the Holocaust as a debating point about the "government takeover of health care." The part that is the most ironic is that Nazi Germany had universal health care.

In 1901 transport and office workers came to be covered by public health insurance, followed in 1911 by agricultural and forestry workers and domestic servants, and in 1914 by civil servants. Coverage was extended to the unemployed in 1918, to seamen in 1927, and to all dependents in 1930. In 1941 legislation was passed that allowed workers whose incomes had risen above the income ceiling for compulsory membership to continue their insurance on a voluntary basis. The same year, coverage was extended to all retired Germans. Salespeople came under the plan in 1966, self-employed agricultural workers in 1972, and students and the disabled in 1975.

This "public health insurance" that the Germans and later the Nazis had would be something liberals would probably rush out to support. This so-called "socialized medicine" was a carryover from Bismark from 1883 but the Nazi's continued the trend but with Jews and "unproductive people" left out of the system. It is just a case from history when a totalitarian government controls the distribution of resources they always kick a group they hate out of the system. I mean the Soviets did it to any ethnic group that happened to be "not Soviet enough."

That is what people are afraid of when they feel there is a "government takeover of health care." They would get kicked out of the system for having too high a carbon footprint, or listening to the wrong radio personalities, making unacceptable amounts of money, or simply attending the wrong political rallies. They would be at the mercy of a government they distrust and seems to never have their best interests at heart. Invoking the Holocaust to rally support for such a system is perhaps the worst low blow you could imagine.