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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Robber barons are given an unfair verdict by history, their activities rarely affected the middle classes who only made well researched low risk long term investments, their activities weeded out the old money and grifters from the stock market in the same way a king would put any petty princeling in his place.

At a time when the US was pretty much centrally planned by a close knit hereditary plutocracy this was essential for the fledgling free market to rear it's head, of course the robber barons and general nouveau riche aspired to gain stately powers, the fact they went about it through economic management rather than politics is the key here, compared to Mexico the US could achieve far greater levels of economic sophistication even though the Mexican aristocracy was not significantly less intelligent or educated than the US and had every opportunity to attempt to imitate the latest advancements seen in the US.