Godwin’s Law
In 1990, Mike Godwin, the first staff counsel to the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) observed that as any form of online debate continues the probability of one party comparing another to Hitler or the Nazis becomes certain. This is now known as Godwin’s Law.
The generally accepted corollary is that the side of the debate that brings the Nazis into the discussion loses and that the debate stops.
The health care debate is reached Godwin’s Law conclusion some time ago now. It’s high time to move on to actual substantive discussion and legislation. If the free market were able to curtail insurance company abuses, then it would have happened sometime in the last three or four decades that people have been pointing out our health care crisis. This recognition of reality has to be a starting point for discussion.