Community | August 16, 2009 | 6 comments

Conservative Legend Winston Churchill founded Socialized Medicine in UK

source: http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2009/08/14/healthcare/

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Long before many of today’s frothing right-wing demagogues were born, American conservatives came to idolize Winston Churchill, the late Tory prime minister whose wartime leadership of the British people transformed into the living symbol of democracy armed. That reputation was cemented by his legendary Missouri speech in 1946 warning of the “Iron Curtain” drawn by the Soviet Communists across Eastern Europe. Indeed, journalists and bloggers on the right admire the old warhorse so much that he has even outpolled Ronald Reagan as their “Man of the Century.”

Yet by the standards of the present moment, as these same conservatives mobilize against health care reform to “stop socialism,” that same great man was actually a raving Bolshevik. For among his most enduring legacies was the founding and sustenance of the system that became the National Health Service. Arguably as much as any other British politician, it was Churchill who established “socialized medicine.”
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  • majorbscaller
  • bansheewail
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      bansheewail  

    • Churchill was a dyed-in the wool, stick up his ass, war-mongering Conservative. Check your history. He kept his country from folding under the pressure of the Nazi war machine with an iron will. He was no "flip-flopper" in the Rovian sense of the word. He was the mold that Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld and the Neo-Cons were cast in. **With one GIANT distiction** He actually did the things he said he would do. He loved his country.

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  • PressCore
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      PressCore  

    • The God given inalienable human rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is well regognized.
      But put those principles to the test by implementing a system to guarantee it, and the sky becomes full of flak.
      Capitalism is inconsistent with Liberty.

    • 2 years ago
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