Obamacare is ‘slavery’? Hear Sharpton’s response

8:16 PM on 10/11/2013

File Photo: U.S. President George W. Bush (R) presents a Presidential Medal of Freedom to Benjamin S. Carson, Sr. M.D (L), for his work with neurological disorders during an East Room ceremony June 19, 2008 at the White House in Washington, DC. The medal is the nation’s highest civilian award. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images, File)

The physician turned conservative pundit Ben Carson became the latest conservative to connect the Affordable Care Act to slavery during his remarks at the Value Voters Summit on Friday.

“Obamacare is, really I think the worse thing that’s happened in this nation since slavery, and it is in a way–it is slavery in a way, because it is making all of us subservient to the government,” he said. “It was never about health care. It was about control.”

Carson’s critique went one step beyond what we’ve heard from the likes of fellow conservative pundit George Will, who simply drew loose comparisons between the health reform law and the Fugitive Slave Act, which required slaves be returned to their masters.

And that inspired Rev. Al Sharpton to call out the newly-minted Fox News contributor on his show Friday. ”Dr. Carson, you should know better,” Sharpton said.

Watch his full reaction in the video below.