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This argument by massive processed food industries, that if we get Universal Healthcare, that their products and practices will be curtailed because it will be
by sitkack 2y ago
This argument by massive processed food industries, that if we get Universal Healthcare, that their products and practices will be curtailed because it will be for the actual monetary public good says nothing about what is sold in countries with public healthcare.
Are you saying that corporate processed food manufacturers are not making that statement?
Clearly there is a problem with soda consumption leading to obesity in countries with Universal Healthcare, but that isn't the argument I am making.
- tanaros 2y ago> Are you saying that corporate processed food manufacturers are not making that statement? No. I have no knowledge of what statements such manufacturers are or are not making. However, your original post said “One of the reasons that we don't have Universal Healthcare in the US is that things that are categorically unhealthy would be prohibited from being sold.” This phrasing implies that the statement is true, or at least you believe it to be true. So it seemed relevant to offer a counter-example. Even if you had originally said “corporate processed food manufacturers claim their products will be curtailed and lobby heavily on this point,” I think it would still be useful to point out that such claims are highly likely to be false given past experience in other countries.
- sitkack 2y agoThose other countries already have Universal Healthcare, so no lobbying against UH will be effective or successful. The fact that other countries have a supply of unhealthy processed food doesn't have any bearing about how much effort US food companies will put in preventing UH. You can see their concerted response when sugar taxes are instituted.