# SCOTUS's decision on The Health Care Law 6/28/12

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**Created:** [June 27, 2012, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotuss-decision-on-the-health-care-law-6-28-12/626499 "2012-06-27T19:56:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotuss-decision-on-the-health-care-law-6-28-12/626499/488 "2012-07-01T02:34:26Z")

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> [@magellan01](#):
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> We understand that you can craft two sentences together to make it sound like they are the same thing. Now, can YOU understand the differences that have been pointed out?

I’m not trying to trick you with rhetorical razzle-dazzle. I’m showing you that you’re upset over literally nothing.

They raised taxes on everyone and gave a discount to those with health insurance. Big whup.

Also, George Washington signed laws requiring mandatory health care and mandatory purchases of weapons and kit for militia use. [PolitiFact | Harvard Law professor says early Congress mandated health insurance for seamen and gun ownership for most men](http://www.politifact.com/rhode-island/statements/2012/jan/13/einer-elhauge/harvard-law-professor-says-early-congress-mandated/)

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> First was the 1790 law, passed by that first Congress, which applied to any U.S. ship that was at least 150 tons or with a crew of at least 10. It required the master or commander to either have a supply of on-board medicines (with instructions) or provide “all such advice, medicine, or attendance of physicians, as any of the crew shall stand in need of in case of sickness” and do it “without any deduction from the wages of such sick seaman or mariner.”
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> Sounds like mandatory health care to us.
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> Then, in 1792, a Congress that included 17 framers passed a law requiring nearly every “free able-bodied white male citizen” age 18 to 44, within six months, “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,” along with balls and gunpowder. A rifle could be substituted. The purpose was to establish a uniform militia.

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