Pope Francis: Employers Who Don’t Offer Workers Health Care Coverage Are ‘True Leeches’

Pope Francis is blasting employers who deny workers health insurance coverage, referring to them as "true leeches” who “live on the bloodletting of the people they make slaves to work."

According to the National Catholic Reporter, the pontiff made the comments while delivering a homily at Casa Santa Marta on Thursday evening. He reportedly outlined a hypothetical situation in which a business employs someone from September to June but denies them health care coverage during their tenure. Francis observed that when the job ends, the worker “must eat air.”

"Exploitation of people today is a true slavery,” the pope said, referring to the suffering of workers who aren’t treated fairly. “We thought that slaves do not exist anymore. They exist. It's true, people don't go to Africa to take them and then sell them in America, no. But it's in our cities."...
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016/05/19/3779838/pope-francis-health-care-leeches/