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Bonhomme Richard
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Mon Jan-31-11 04:33 PM Original message |
In 1798 John Adams signed a bill mandating the purchase of health insurance. |
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Mon Jan-31-11 04:36 PM Response to Original message |
1. And in 1830 Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act |
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Bonhomme Richard
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Mon Jan-31-11 04:39 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. If it isn't obvious then you wouldn't understand anyway. n/t |
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Mon Jan-31-11 04:42 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. No it's not obvious. Are you saying that because the founding fathers signed something... |
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Bonhomme Richard
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Mon Jan-31-11 04:45 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. The point is that congress mandating the purchase of |
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Mon Jan-31-11 04:48 PM Response to Reply #13 |
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Mon Jan-31-11 05:00 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Also it wasn't even insurance is the current sense of the word. |
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Mon Jan-31-11 05:19 PM Response to Reply #15 |
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slackmaster
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Mon Jan-31-11 04:37 PM Response to Original message |
2. The bill mandated that employers buy insurance for sailors as a condition of using US ports |
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Bonhomme Richard
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Mon Jan-31-11 04:42 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Beg to differ. |
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Mon Jan-31-11 04:44 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Except that it didn't subsidize healthcare. |
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Mon Jan-31-11 04:45 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. You can beg all you want it doesn't change the fact. |
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slackmaster
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Mon Jan-31-11 04:47 PM Response to Reply #7 |
14. It seems to me the government was trying to cover a cost of doing business |
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Mon Jan-31-11 04:42 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Thank you +1 |
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Myrina
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Mon Jan-31-11 04:58 PM Response to Reply #2 |
16. Yep, this was debunked when he posted it a couple weeks ago too. |
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Bonhomme Richard
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Mon Jan-31-11 06:20 PM Response to Reply #16 |
23. "He" never posted this before. n/t |
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Bonhomme Richard
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Mon Jan-31-11 06:03 PM Response to Reply #2 |
20. "which sum he is hereby authorized to retain out of the wages of such seamen." |
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slackmaster
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Mon Jan-31-11 06:09 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Fair enough, so the payment was a condition of employment |
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Joanne98
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Mon Jan-31-11 04:40 PM Response to Original message |
4. Good catch |
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miscsoc
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Mon Jan-31-11 04:41 PM Response to Original message |
5. I wouldn't be surprised if the likes of Glenn Beck dismissed Adams as a proto-socialist |
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Mon Jan-31-11 04:43 PM Response to Original message |
9. So many false comparisons |
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enlightenment
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Mon Jan-31-11 04:45 PM Response to Original message |
12. The author of that piece is conflating |
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blindpig
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Mon Jan-31-11 05:36 PM Response to Original message |
19. Yeah, the same guy who was for property qualifiations for voting. |
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Mon Jan-31-11 06:17 PM Response to Original message |
22. Did you ever consider that, maybe, if you have to dig this deep and stretch this hard.. |
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coti
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Mon Jan-31-11 06:22 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Probably the best response on this thread. |
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Bonhomme Richard
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Mon Jan-31-11 06:30 PM Response to Original message |
25. My own view is that single payer is the only way to go but... |
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