It is wrong to assume, as some ultra-free marketers do, that the absence of social protection makes you stronger. The ambition of a country and a society born of the principles of the Enlightenment cannot be to create a people armed to the teeth with guns yet entirely disarmed in the face of illness.
一个人如果失去工作，健康医疗保险自然也就丧失，那么，一旦他得了癌症，谁将为他支付医疗费用呢？在那些积极鼓吹市场化的人眼里，越是没有福利保障的社会，人们自我进取的动力就越强。这显然是错误的。在一个充满希望和机遇的国度，我们不能让那些努力打拼的人们在面临疾病的威胁时，变得束手无策。