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?
There was the Sherman Silver Purchase Act and the McKinley Tariff, which has been partly blamed on for causing, or aiding to cause the panic, however, it was heavy speculation in the railroad industry that did the most damage. Government mostly kept out of the affairs of markets and industry. Most elected officials in those times were still strict adherents of the gold standard, and kept a laissez-faire approach.

The SF earthquake of 1906 is unfortunate, and nobody was really prepared for that; most of the cause of the panic of 1907 was cause by the Wall Street assholes with their speculative fuckery.

Today is even much worse, since the Internet and technology and instantaneous communication makes the Wall Street heads scheme even more efficiently, and would be even worse if they weren't regulated at all.