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Originally Posted by HejiraNYC
Um... food and drugs are both regulated by the same agency (FDA), which is a division of an even larger government agency, the Health and Human Services (headed by Kathleen Sebelius). Safe food, safe medicine and sound health policy ARE grouped together whether you like it or not.  |
What I meant was this: They're completely different because healthcare is an internal matter, having to do with a person being able to have total control over his or her own body, whereas clean air, drinking water, and safe food are externals that one person cannot have total control over.