>Farmers are few, people who get diseases are many. Shouldn't be too hard. "Concentrated benefits, dispersed costs." Farmers are highly organized and vigilant

>Farmers are few, people who get diseases are many. Shouldn't be too hard. "Concentrated benefits, dispersed costs." Farmers are highly organized and vigilant in defense of their subsidies and regulations, whereas sick people are not similarly organized and the policy connection to their condition isn't obvious. Concentrated benefits are what create special interests, which by their nature put their own interest ahead of the national interest.