OBAMA'S DICTATORSHIP WORKS FROM A PAGE OUT OF VLADIMI LENIN'S PLAY BOOK

[TSGT Uvin A. Clough Jr., USAF, R]

Ever wonder where the Dicator Obama got his three new "pillars" Blueprint for Socialized Medicine, Banking and Higher Education? ? ?

TSGT Clough

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ObamaCare Vs, LeninCare: U.S. copies Soviets

The Obama Record: When Vladimir I. Lenin sought to remake Russian society into a "proletariats' paradise," he targeted three sectors for control: health care, banking and education. Sound familiar? Of these three, however, Lenin viewed socialized medicine as the "keystone" to building his socialist utopia.

The Bolshevik leader told the Russian people everybody would be able to afford going to the doctor, not just the "greedy rich." He also claimed centralized control of the medical industry would "reduce costs" and end the "waste" from "unnecessary duplication and parallelism" in a competitive market. In 1918, the USSR became the first nation to promise "free" universal health-care coverage.

Fifteen years later, major flaws appeared in its grand social experiment, even to Western observers who for the most part romanticized it. "Monetary motives have almost entirely ceased to operate in medical practice in Soviet Russia," observed a pair of sympathetic physicians from America and Britain who traveled to Russia in 1933.

As a result, "there still exists a great shortage of physicians and hospitals," they wrote in their report, "Red Medicine: Socialized Health in Soviet Russia." "Drugs are almost fabulously dear and scarce." "Overworked doctors" couldn't handle the flood of new patients. A bloated new medical bureaucracy, led by the People's Commissar of Public Health, only worsened delays in treatment. "The dissatisfied patients objected to the many formalities before they were allowed to see a doctor at the public clinic, and to the fact that the intervals before they saw him again were excessive," the 1933 report said.

"Other complaints have been of lack of hospital beds when needed." It was not uncommon for patients to die while waiting in line to be admitted. Rationing became necessary. Elderly patients were often turned away from care. Death panels appointed by the health commissar decided their fate. "This committee decides as to patients needing treatment at a rest home or a sanatorium," the Western doctors wrote in their report.

As bad as Soviet medicine was, it was anything but "free." "Most workers and their families receive free medical treatment as insured persons," the report said. "But the funds for this treatment do not come from insurance funds, but from general taxation." This is how President Obama intends to pay for his own universal health-care plan, which will subsidize some 28 million uninsured and underinsured Americans through tax hikes on the rich.

In a little-noticed 2009 speech, Obama vowed to demolish "structural inequalities" in America and rebuild the economy on three new "pillars" — socialized medicine, banking and higher education.