Would you rather that 25 percent of the food you buy didn't have

[HysteryDiagnosis]

mandatory healthcare??

The beef you may have purchased today would have had mandatory healthcare, so would the chicken, fish, turkey, emu and grits. It was inspected, regulated, homogenized, pasteurized, fluoridated, marinated, and met meticulous quality standards. Anyone interested in purchasing the 25 percent of the food that wouldn't be treated in such a fashion line up over there... your funeral arrangements will be forthcoming, your epitaph will read, "I just didn't think it was that important."

Furthermore.... your pets have to have mandatory healthcare... rabies, parvo, feline leukemia, etc etc... BY LAW. Now don't tell me that we treat animals better than we do American citizens... I already know that.

[SoCalNative]

1. My cat isn't required to have ANY vaccines

where I live.

And my late canine only had to have a rabies vaccine every 3 years.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Why do you have to poke a sharp stick in my eye? I know this

is weak and it has its exceptions however it does make the point that we take other issues more seriously than we take the welfare of living breathing people.

[Robbien]

3. Have you even visited a factory farm?

In our society Health care for food animals is non-existent. Any animal so unlucky to get sick, just lays down and dies. On second thought, they may be the lucky ones who no longer have to put up with the torture of living on a factory farm.

Nice to see you equate yourself and the people around you as feed animals, just something to be used up and discarded. That's how the elite see us.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. Wuh??

[glen123098]

4. I think that the "mandatory healthcare" should be the responsibility of the government to provide.

And not the individual. How do you expect someone with a preexisting condition who makes minimum wage to pay for private healthcare?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

7. There is no way they can which is why you are 100 percent right

saying it should be the responsibility of the government.

[MisterP]

6. health CARE, not mandatory INSURANCE; and it's not like universal healthcare causes bad health nt

[HysteryDiagnosis]

8. Universal healthcare causes better health by addressing medical

situations before the go into the red. Healthcare overall is more expensive now due to people waiting until they cannot wait any longer.

[stray cat]

9. I think companies should be able to opt out of FDA safety requirements

and municipalities should be able to opt out for regulations for water safety. After all mandates for safety cut into profits and actually costs you and I as taxpayers money.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

10. Here here, just connect the pipe coming into the water treatemt

plant into the one leaving it, who needs all that expensive machinery inbetween anyway???

[Thothmes]

11. Non argument

about 25% of what I eat, I hunt and kill myself. It may come with parasites, tapeworms etc, but it roamed on a free range until I killed it.

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. Mandatory health care is not an issue in the current clusterf**K

Mandatory care COVERAGE....ie: Insurance...is the issue many of us reject.

And I disagree strongly that our food supply is stringently inspected.
It should be, but there have been tons of stories of how it is not.

No one is arguing that healthcare is not important.
And only the insurance companies are arguing that MANDATORY insurance is important.

Worse yet, even if every person in the country bought insurance, we STILL would not have access to decent and equal health care, since insurance companies are finding new ways to deny, limit or not cover the care that insured people have now.

[undeterred]

13. My dog has insurance and I don't.

The price of $35 per month is worth is so I never have to say "I can't afford to fix this. Put him to sleep."