Healthcare & the founding fathers

Oh gee, the founding fathers supported Socialized Healthcare.... Including the requirement to buy healthcare, of course they didn't have the tax breaks we have today...

http://blogs.forbes.com/rickungar/2011/01/17/congress-passes-socialized-medicine-and-mandates-health-insurance-in-1798/

the law itself

http://www.scribd.com/doc/29099806/Act-for-the-Relief-of-Sick-DisabledSeamen-July-1798


Spread the word, because I want my fucking insurance exchange now!!!!

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Free market is good and all, but how can it cope with problems like Information Asymmetry? Where the seller of a product often has more information than the buyer, thus cheating the buyer out of a decent/more adequate product. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_asymmetry

Which is also why there's things like the Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson-Moss_Warranty_Act to help govern and regulate warranties on consumer products. Exactly how, in your opinion, would a truly free market be able to solve and cope with these problems WITHOUT any government regulation AT ALL?