Watch this until the end:
ThinkProgress points out that food is, indeed, a human right.
A wingnut emailer yesterday was trying to wheel out this argument against me. My response was that Americans aren't being randomly kicked out of grocery stores and banned from returning. People aren't being singled out and charged triple the price for a loaf of bread. Inexpensive food is readily available to anyone in America who wants it.
In fact, we have more food in America than we know what to do with. But if suddenly the food industry were to start behaving like the healthcare industry, I certainly hope the government would step in and put an end to it.
What Jillian Bandes and other wingnuts don't get is this very basic concept: Health and medicine shouldn't be the exclusive domain of the wealthy.
Speaking of Jillian. About this: "I’m sorry I’m not a cancer survivor, but that doesn’t mean I can’t criticize a public plan." Eff you, Jillian.