I don't know if you've noticed, but the political process is completely fucking broken. Good fucking luck getting any of that passed in any meaningful form.
Once rich people are inconvenienced, the problem will be taken seriously.
Case in point, there was no "opioid crisis" in America until some rich Senator's daughter overdosed on heroin. Then all of a sudden it's a crisis.
Yes, we have to live through it anyway.
Just like everyone else who lived before us.