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| By Gilbert Stuart - http://www.cowboybooks.com.au/pictures/JohnAdams.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91133 (With my socialist addition) |
Back at the founding of our country, those great Jesus-like men like John Adams determined that it was in the common good that we provide medical care to sailors coming into port. Congress mandated a tax on shipping companies of $.20 per-month per-seaman. With this money, the government set up hospitals at ports and treated those nasty sailors for scurvy, syphilis, and whatever other conditions they had acquired.
This was a blatant act of government interference with free enterprise, setting the stage for many acts of socialism to come. It starts with treating a few sailors and ends with us all marching to a gulag.
Read the act here: https://history.nih.gov/research/downloads/1StatL605.pdf
