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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Well sure, there's no perfect system. Pure free market capitalism is not somehow exempted from human nature, and people will take advantage of others, probably much more so under pure free market. Though in the same vein, pure socialism doesn't work either and yes, can degenerate into complete totalitarianism, which nobody wants, which is also why nobody seriously speaks about completely abolishing the capitalist mode of production since that's just throwing the baby out with the bathwater.