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Fortinbras Armstrong

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58. Do you know who instituted the first socialized medicine?

Mon Sep 20, 2021, 11:01 AM

Sep 2021

It was that most conservative of German Reichskanzlers, Prince Otto von Bismarck. He did it -- along with a government-paid old age pension scheme and a long-term disability program -- for two reasons: First, those three were major planks of the Socialist Party platform and he was willing to steal their thunder. Second, he thought they were good for the German people. The current German versions of all three are descended from Bismarck's programs.

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Here is an amazing letter that was in this morning's Columbus Dispatch. [View all] mwb970 Sep 2021 OP

Don't tell us, write that back to the paper in reply to Kathy. Scrivener7 Sep 2021 #1

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Do you know who instituted the first socialized medicine? Fortinbras Armstrong Sep 2021 #58

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