With a look at culture from a Christian worldview I'm John Stone Street with the point.

And a new book called The Big Fail, what the pandemic revealed about who America protects and who it leaves behind,

reporter Joe Nissera painted a less than flattering picture of the way that many American industries, from banking to health care, handled the COVID-19 pandemic.

Particularly troubling is the account of for-profit hospitals.

For example, the Wall Street Journal reported that hospitals in wealthy neighborhoods in

LA routinely refused to accept transfer patients from overrun community hospitals,

not because they didn't have the beds, but in order to save money.

According to the head of a community hospital in LA South Side, her hospital treated more

COVID patients than wealthier hospitals four times their size.

Edmund Burke famously wrote that's ordained in the Eternal Constitution of things that

men of intemperate minds cannot be free.

For a market economy to remain free, businesses have to operate with moral clarity.

People can't be sacrificed for profit.

And what's true for individuals is just as true for industries.

We cannot serve both God and money. For the

Colston Center, I'm John Stone Street.