Which is his rationale for government-run health care.
Via CNS News:
In a speech on the Senate floor Tuesday, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said free enterprise isn’t always best. Government must step in.
“The free enterprise system is a strong system,” he said, but it “created unfairness and injustice when it came to health care, which we are addressing with this Affordable Care Act.”
In passing that law, Durbin said Democrats “rejected the free enterprise approach to health care and said let’s have something that basically respects families.”
He also criticized Republicans for embracing free enterprise:
“Let me tell you a free enterprise idea when it came to health care. Before the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the free enterprise idea was this: If you were unfortunate enough in your family to have a sick baby; if your wife was a cancer survivor; if your child had diabetes, the free enterprise answer was, we will raise the cost of health insurance to the point where you can’t afford it or we won’t even offer it.