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Are you trying to claim the United States doesn't have those?

Because it currently has 2 of those (minimum wage and a health insurance mandate) at the federal level.

The United States have both of those implemented in exactly the wrong way: the minimum wage is livable nowhere, and there is still people without health insurance in the US today.

Minimum wage is hardly livable anywhere in the western world so that has nothing to do with US. Show me any country in Europe where living in minimum wage means anything else than poverty in all but name.

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