cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17483630
They’re marketed as healthy, “dietitian-approved” meals and delivered directly to the homes of people seriously ill from cancer, diabetes, or heart disease: a Jimmy Dean frozen sausage breakfast sandwich, biscuits and gravy, a cheeseburger.
These are among the offerings sold by an Idaho-based company, Homestyle Direct, which is paid millions of dollars each year by taxpayer-funded state Medicaid programs to deliver what the company calls medically tailored meals. The company, which advertises delivering 7.8 million meals annually, has menus catering to customers trying to manage their cancer and diabetes, as well as “heart healthy” and “renal friendly” dishes.
However, multiple nutrition experts told STAT that many of Homestyle Direct’s offerings fall far short of what they’d consider medically tailored meals, a class of foods that have been proven to help those suffering from diet-related conditions improve their health and stay out of the hospital. Most also don’t appear to meet new voluntary accreditation standards crafted by medically-tailored meal providers.
“Homestyle Direct to me doesn’t look like medically tailored meals at all — it doesn’t even look like generally healthy meals,” said Dariush Mozaffarian, director of the Food is Medicine Institute at Tufts University.
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.
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
The company is Homestyle Direct and here is their website https://www.homestyledirect.com/
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.
