hypercrites

It didn't exclude domestic fishermen type seamen, did it. Try again.

It excluded them from the mandate of paying for it or the penalty tax of not paying for it. Try again

Infectious germs and viruses are no respecter of persons and you'd have only domestic sailors spreading STDs to every U.S. citizen at large?

I'd have??? We're talking about a law from over 200 years ago. And seeing as how there was no cure for STDs in 1798 I don't see how anything short of shooting every sailor coming off the boat could stop the spread of STDs. And "every U.S. citizen at large"???you're assuming that every citizen was as skanky as today's democrats.

Your intention is to decimate U.S. population the way Europeans decimated Indians? Too cute by half. Communicable diseases will always keep the most individualistic conservative's leg chained to necessary socialism, Typhoid Mary.

Huh? My intention was to refute the claim that the founding fathers thought the constitution authorized Socialized medicine at the federal level.