Home health care belongs in the infrastructure package. We all pay for it anyway.

The lack of an adequate social safety net in the United States costs all of us — in time, in money, in emotional worry and energy. True, it doesn’t meet the traditional definition of infrastructure, but that doesn’t mean it’s not desperately needed. Just because the federal government doesn’t offer adequate help doesn’t mean the need goes away. Instead, the costs migrate to each of us individually, at one time or the other. We’re still paying the bill, in the form of low or reduced earnings, higher expenses or both — paying it out of pocket, one by one by one.