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.
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.
in that sense, agreed
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.
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?
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 annoying governments and pro “free enterprise”
Good point tbh
Spot on.