does anyone have the particulars on Republicans in the House voting against subsidy for infant

[CTyankee]

formula? I'm getting sick of my Trumpy neighbor accusing the Biden Administration not paying enough attention to our supply of infant formula nationwide.

My guess is that it was part of a larger bill for Medicaid appropriations, but I don't know.

[onecaliberal]

1. List of the 192 who voted against.

Newsweek article.

https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-house-republicans-voted-against-fda-baby-formula-bill-1708036

[gratuitous]

2. Why isn't the free market solving this?

Is your dumbass neighbor saying that it's the big, bad government's responsibility to save the free market from itself? The Abbott production plant that shut down for all those months did so because they were poisoning infants who consumed their product. Abbott, naturally, denies any responsibility for that, but the plant that's been shut down provides fully 40% of the nation's supply of infant formula. Why did so much production capacity get concentrated into one facility like that? Why can't other plants increase their production? Hint: The other facilities are working at capacity as it is. When one plant has to shut down because of contamination, there isn't any capacity for other facilities to take over, because plants with excess capacity don't make as much money as possible for the owners.

This is a free market crisis created by corporate greed.

[bottomofthehill]

3. The unregulated free market solution was causing children to die

The plant was shut down for safety concerns.