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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speculative fuckery
You mean like the Sherman Silver Purchase Act and the McKinley Tariff? Most elected officials were laissez faire, the few that weren't who occasionally managed to slip through fraudulent deals like these were guilty of intentionally engineering the panics along with the populists and ignorant voters who supported them, I think it's obvious which loophole needs to be closed off. Like I said, the robber barons were statists, just less statist than the old money, like Mexican aristocracy who kept Mexico shitty and stagnant for so long, and thus better for the economy, it's still the state that creates these monstrosities though.