@lain @Moon I like this comparison and I've thought about it before:
If "healthcare is a human right", then why not food? You need food to live, after all.
So why not treat food the same way we treat medical care?

Why is one industry exorbitantly expensive and fucked up, and the other not so much?
Because one is heavily regulated, and the other is a (somewhat) free market with low barrier to entry.
You can't start an insurance company these days (so they merge into monopolies), but you can grow your own food.

And yes, socializing or nationalizing food industry, would involve taking the CEOs of McDonalds and Nestle and Walmart, and having them lead the new state-owned corporation, to which no competition is allowed. Growing your own food would be banned, for the same reason that not having health insurance would be banned.

I don't have health insurance. I used to have health insurance, and initially it was considered a bronze-rated plan in Obamacare, but then they raised the standards, and my plan became illegal and they stopped offering it. Instead of paying 5x as much, I opted to pay the individual mandate fee for not buying insurance. So, thanks Obama. "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan".

Oh! The single-payer McDonalds meme should include the penalty you have to pay if you *don't* buy McDonalds food.