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Why defending the healthcare denial industry—and that’s what it is because insurance restricts healthcare—is like defending slavery.
A lot of people depended on American slavery. People earned their living that way. The Southern Confederacy, under slavery, produced cotton and tobacco along with corn, wheat and rice—actual food. Similarly, throughout the 20th century, millions of people held jobs serving under the regimes of Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler and Mao.
Whole systems and economies were (and are) thoroughly integrated with and built on a foundation of unrepentant evil—slavery, violence, brutality, murder.
But these slaveholders, these dictators, these mass killers, they had EXCUSES. And they persisted for longer than should have been possible because their evil had justification and protection.
There is always an ideology to protect evil. Ideology all too often exists not as an explanation of events, but as an essential protector of evil.
Healthcare Denial Is the Moral Equivalent of Slavery
When you get rid of evil, you also end the “good” it does. But this should not be a problem. We never say, if we get rid of the Third Reich, what will we replace it with? Won’t all those fathers who work as concentration…
