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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Didn't the US government pass a series of acts and tariffs intervening in the economy in 1890 that were directly responsible for the panic of 1893? Didn't JP Morgan subsequently bail out the government? Also didn't the government fuck with railroads for a number of years prior to the panic of 1907 thereby causing unnecessary instability during the aftermath of the SF quake and economic instability abroad (in statist nations that fucked with the economy as a policy)?

Also, the gilded age was an era of enormous economic growth for America, 100000s of immigrants entering the country each year and modern technology bursting onto the scene these crashes were more bumps on the road, like someone living in a gilded cage complaining because he's not getting richer as fast as he would have liked.