For an excellent critique of anti-health-care rhetoric, which demolishes the distortions, see this article:

http://mediamatters.org/research/200907290047

Rush Limbaugh's Father Coghlin's playbook

By calling Obama's health plan "nazi," Limbaugh is beating the same demagogic drum that Father Coghlin and America Firsters did in the 1930s.

In those days, the weapon was anti-semitism -- disguised as "National Union for Social Justice;" today it's Orwellian "new speak" which calls liberals "nazis" and redefines free market fanatics as populists protecting the little guy.

FDR and the New Deal survived those times, and Obama will too.