Obamacare (thread 2), Episode 4: If Jefferson Read Obamacare: A Founding Fathers Clash

This episode imagines Thomas Jefferson reading the Affordable Care Act and reacting with constitutional and moral alarm: he sees mandates, subsidies, and federal regulation as extensions of concentrated power and a threat to republican independence.

Contrasting Jefferson's preference for local, voluntary solutions and negative liberty with progressive arguments for health care as a positive right, the episode probes how Obamacare blends government authority and private interests, risking dependence and reduced civic virtue.