Professor Tom DiLorenzo asks that question here and works through the answer. If you accept the premises of the regime’s health care proposal, there’s no reason not to extend it to food, which is also vital for life.

I’d love to see a reporter ask the Beloved Leader (or his dopey puppet Robert Gibbs) if the country shouldn’t also “reform” its “food system” to comply with the socialist notion that important things should be allocated by government rather than the price system.