Originally Posted by
rickair7777
I'd agree we should do a manhattan project on healthcare reform. But private sector... our industry for example works fine as private sector.
We should also do comprehensive immigration reform so we can screen and admit the legal immigrants we need, ensure they get min wage, benefits, pay taxes, and have pathway to citizenship (if desired). Then criminalize border jumping with mandatory hard federal time.
While we're at it comprehensive reform of food safety rules (the euros get that right).
But be careful with the idea of "rights"...
A "right" is something that someone can take away from you, never something that someone must provide to you.
Breathing air is a right. Free speech is a right. Healthcare can never be a right because it doesn't grow on trees, someone has to actually do it for you.
The founders understood this intuitively, see the bill of rights for context.
Healthcare at best can be an "entitlement", guaranteed by law/policy, but practically speaking only as long as they can find someone else to pay for it.
Just curious, do you have gun trees near your house? They must be extinct where i live.
And regarding food safety reform, MAHA is completely missing the boat. In many, many areas the US meets or exceeds the EU standard in food safety. That's not the problem with food and health in this country. The problem is the cheapest and most calorically dense foods you can buy also happen to be food high in sugar and fat. Multiplied that by Internet misinform from wellness influencers whose only goal is to hock their name brand $50/day food supplements and an unwillingness to effectively regulate our food industry because capitalism.