Let's shame Medicaid folks. I'm all for criticizing some things and behaviors but this really feels like a conservative dogwhistle attack. If someone who's receiving taxpayer funded food at home wants a cheeseburger now and then, I'm happy that my taxes are giving them some comfort.
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2024
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I thought the article would be about that, but it's about the quality of the food. It's supposed to be healthy food for sick people, but it doesn't meet the standards. That's a problem for patients with conditions that require controlled diets like diabetes
How is that Medicaid's fault? Why isn't the title something like "Medicaid providers buying unhealthy food with federal funds"
Because we don't name the criminals in this country. It is always stupid government... Or some shit.
It would be nice to know what corpo scam is doing this. Prolly same guy selling prison and "school" food
The company is even listed in the summary, you don't even need to read the article.
Well if you did the work, fucking name them here
Yeah I read the article too. I want to see the available options for each category. Hospitals offer food options in different categories that have a range of healthiness that seems questionable too. Then again, folks in hospitals under tremendous stress should be able to treat themselves time and again. I hope they improve their menu, don't get me wrong.
Hospitals are ran as a scam tho... Not sure what point you are making here unless you are trying to support position that hospitals and vendors are stealing taxpayer money via over priced and subpar products...
If food is shit and price is high... Who gets the difference in value?
Asking for a friend
Because it’s prescribed, it’s approved by Medicaid. If they approved eating grass as a treatment for thyroid cancer, I’d also be pissed. People trust their healthcare system to help them, because not everyone can be an expert. So it’s reasonable to expect Medicaid to only approve things for payment if they promote health. The cheeseburgers in question do not.
STAT News is generally well respected for medical/research news. I think the point of the article is to criticise the company for not making better foods/medicaid for not choosing a better company.
Unfortunately, I will not be at all surprised if right-wing outlets take that headline and run with it as a general criticism of Medicaid.
It's an irresponsible way to word a headline if they want to avoid that.
This entire comment thread is based off someone who clearly thought this was just some sort of food subsidy program and not nutrition based... so I totally agree it will be taken wrong.
Spot on.
in that sense, agreed
So because of bad PR we should not criticize corruption?
I didn't even imply such a thing, so I have no idea where you got that from.
Are you under the bizarre impression that there is no article, just a headline?
I will not be at all surprised if right-wing outlets take that headline and run with it as a general criticism of Medicaid.
Your bigger concern here is what ring wing will do rather than the crime being committed.
If you don't mean that way, I apologies.
This is not about what is a bigger concern. I can't speak for you, but most people can be concerned about more than one thing. In my case, one of those things was that I feel, and others apparently agree, that it is a headline which will be used as anti-Medicaid propaganda.
Why that doesn't concern you, I don't know. It should considering how effective propaganda has been throughout pretty much all of human history.
Media bias is always anti governments and pro "free enterprise"
Good point tbh
Right, but the title doesn't even mention a company. Why.
Because in this here country we don't name the perp when they are part of the club.
This is a huge lesson in this question.
Dirty!! They just presented their services to our hospital too and were excited that our patients were going to have their nutritional needs met.... Obviously not....will share this with hospital teams to have them further assess before using these services
Most corruption happens via government Procurement
Citation needed.
Public procurement is the government activity most vulnerable to waste, mismanagement and corruption. The financial interests at stake, the volume of transactions and the close interaction between public and private sectors in the award of public contracts all pose risks to integrity.
https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/sub-issues/integrity-in-public-procurement.html
Note that OECD is the official global regime propaganda
This is common sense to anyone living and working lol
Many common sense notions are parroted without any research into whether or not they are categorically true. Some are apocryphal, others might be true. There is definitely a lot of waste and corruption in anything that is human endeavor, I can agree.