The 1798 “Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen:” Yet another “progessive” irrelevancy0

• July 3, 2011

As Tom Woods points out on his blog, advocates of Obamacare have dug up a 1798 federal  statute that, they say, shows that the original understanding of the Constitution is broad enough to authorize federal health care programs.  The statute authorized creation of federal hospitals for sailors. After I entered a brief response to his