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Did the Founders support a national health care mandate?

January 25, 2011 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author: Joshua Thompson While I was looking through my Facebook account last night, I stumbled upon a post from a law school friend of mine that suggested that the Founders supported a health care mandate.  His post revolved around a law passed (and signed by President John Adams) in 1798, titled, "An Act for the … ...