Stacey Abrams: ‘I’m Sick and Tired of Hearing About the Free Market Being the Solution’

During a townhall event in Atlanta, Georgia gubernatorial candidate, Stacey Abrams, said she’s “sick and tired of hearing about the free market being the solution” to health care. 

Here’s a transcript of her comments: 

"When we consider the diverse economy, we can educate bold and ambitious children, but our fundamental responsibility is to take care of the least of these, especially when the least of these are working families who only want a little bit of access to health care. And I am sick and tired of hearing about the free market being the solution to this problem because I've never seen the free market right, it was fiction in rural Georgia. I need to never see the free market show up to give someone [inaudible] so they could have a little bit of control of their diabetes before it turns into an amputation of their foot. I've never seen the free market say, 'I'm going to replace that stent in your heart next door, not make you go 200 miles to get it done. The problem with the free market is the free market needs to make a profit, and there is no profit in doing the right thing."