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Occupy Wall Street: If Banks Are Too Big to Fail, Are People Too Small to Matter?

By Curt Goering
October 19, 2011 at 3:49 PM
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Protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement rally in Foley Square before marching through Lower Manhattan (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Originally posted to The Guardian

Occupy Wall Street protesters are understandably angry at the support given big business, while individuals struggle against high unemployment, costly health care coverage and shrinking social services.

A little while ago, opponents of universal health care coverage in the United States claimed that it was a “moral hazard.” The argument characterized people as lazy and irresponsible, prone to “abuse” the system at significant cost to society but none to themselves. The logic and economy of preventative care was largely ignored, as was the fact that access to health care is a human right.

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Posted in Business and Human Rights, Poverty and Human Rights, USA

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