Founding fathers liked taxed government health care

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Originally Posted by Riot

How so? They were private ships and private employees and private owners of those ships.

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. Via a tax on their employers (the employee had to pay - no choice - out of their pay, and the employer forwarded it to the government)

Private business had to pay a tax to the government, which then provided health care. Pretty simple.

The point is: the founding fathers were far more "liberal" than not. They were "elite", "over-educated", "European-influenced", and didn't think much of the bible (to paraphrase Bill Maher). No matter what the Tea Baggers selectively try to co-opt.

Quoting the second article:

It seems to me the theory here was to make sure a certain area of our commerce that was deemed to be imperative would not fail as a result of lacking health care. Which is absolutely fine with me and probably everyone else too. The issues that today's plan are trying to address are just so very different.