Mises Daily
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Dale Steinreich
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can only be accurately understood in the context of what led up to it. Free market medicine did not begin in the United States in 1776 with the Revolution. From war, it had hospitals and physicians, but no more worker clientele, so it started marketing to the wider public and by the 1970s had more than 3 million enrollees in obligations on individuals do not have to be a “hard” mandate, in the sense that failure to obtain coverage would be illegal. It could be a “soft” mandate, meaning