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Originally Posted by RogueGypsy
...Back to reform and the Oblahblah plan to save the sick. It costs 940 Billion dollars, does not do as advertised and is not supported by the majority of informed or otherwise, citizens. Being mandatory is an affront to the values of our founders and our nation as a whole...
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The $940 billion over 10 years is offset...the biggest pieces are cutting $150 billion in overpayments to Medicare Advantage providers and $250 billion with a .9 percent tax increase on the Medicare payroll tax on people making more than $200k. Much of the rest is from long-term savings resulting from the bill's investment in technology.
Most polls show majority support for the legislation.
The founding fathers were the first to impose a mandatory health care payment:
When it comes to mandating health insurance, it began with the Founding Fathers who established the first health insurance program in America which was imposed by the federal government.
The effort began July 20, 1789 during the First Congress, which established a committee to come up with ways to ensure health of American merchant mariners, who worked in one of, if not the largest industry of the day.
In 1790, the Founding Fathers enacted a law requiring ships to carry medical supplies and provide health care for crew.
In 1798, those same Founding Fathers enacted the Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen which created the U.S. Public health Service as well as the Marine Hospital Services (MHS).
The law forced every merchant mariner to pay 20 cents a month into a fund to pay for their medical care. This was one of the first direct taxes on individual citizens.
At the same time, the federal government established a system of MHS hospitals in seaports and inland waterways.
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The founding fathers and the first Congress also imposed a mandate on all citizens under the Militia Act of 1792.
"That every citizen, so enrolled and notified, shall, within six months thereafter, provide himself with a good musket or firelock, a sufficient bayonet and belt, two spare flints, and a knapsack, a pouch, with a box therein, to contain not less than twenty four cartridges, suited to the bore of his musket or firelock, each cartridge to contain a proper quantity of powder and ball; or with a good rifle, knapsack, shot-pouch, and powder-horn, twenty balls suited to the bore of his rifle, and a quarter of a pound of powder
Government mandates on the people are as old as the country itself.