Congress passes manditory health insurance mandate...213 years ago

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In July of 1798, Congress passed – and President John Adams signed - “An Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen.” The law authorized the creation of a government operated marine hospital service and mandated that privately employed sailors be required to purchase health care insurance.

Short version: There's no proof from the historical record that Adams would have backed the idea behind the individual mandate in particular. But it is fair to conclude, that the founding generation supported the basic idea of government run health care, and the use of mandatory taxation to pay for it.

http://blogs.forbes.com/rickungar/2011/01/17/congress-passes-socialized-medicine-and-mandates-health-insurance-in-1798/

http://www.scribd.com/doc/29099806/Act-for-the-Relief-of-Sick-DisabledSeamen-July-1798

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2011/01/founding_fathers_favored_gover.html

http://www.common-place.org/vol-09/no-01/rao/
 
Thats a slightly different situation in that the Marines are a branch of the U.S. Military, owned and run by the U.S. Government, so to mandate Government healthcare for them is a little different......
 
interesting find. it doesn't relate to the issue right now really because that was really specific- a lot of jobs today require health insurance- the debate right now is more about universal health care. it's actually kind of surprising because the Framers of the constitution were mostly federalists, whose philosophy was that people should be responsible for themselves, and that was the government's sentiment during that time. idk i could be wrong, but i hope not. i just took my ap gov midterm today.
 
It's a shit storm when people like you, who say they don't care, decide to post. Otherwise it's just a bunch of news articles and history.
 
i love canada...
and this is why we have free healthcare
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and
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we consume lots of both...
 
not quite; i mean yes it's not a perfect match for today's topic, but it isn't talking about marines as in military marines.

the text from the law:

the master or owner of every ship or vessel of the United States, arriving from a foreign port into any port of the United States, shall, before such ship or vessel shall be admitted to an entry, render to the collector a true account of the number of seamen that shall have been employed on board such vessel since she was last entered at any port in the United States, and shall pay, to the said collector, at the rate of twenty cents per month for every seaman so employed ; which sum he is hereby authorized to retain out of the wages of such seamen.
 
So you're a bunch of drunken fat shits?
I guess saskatchewan is pretty heavyset though... and alberta (which is canada's texas)
 
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