“The very Americans that our government now, and this President, does not trust a to make decision on your health care plan. Those Americans risked everything so they could make that decision on their health care plan.” –Rick Santorum, invoking the American soldiers who stormed Normandy on D-Day to criticize Democrats’ health reform proposals at a campaign event in Pennsylvania, June 6, 2011
Abstractions aside, Hitler wasn’t plotting to force Americans to purchase health insurance. And about those soldiers wounded in battle? They got full-blown socialized medicine straight from Uncle Sam.