Churchill and Health Care (2): An Ongoing Discussion
"A question Churchill had to face in his time was: if you are for the social safety net, including health care, how do you prevent that from building a society of "drones" (his word), ultimately dominated by a bureaucratic elite? Churchill answered that question in many ways: the social safety net is simple justice, he said; without it the 'people will set their faces like flint against the money power' A constitution should protect the people against this tendency."
