[AGL] What's Wrong With Medicare for All

[Charles Loving]

Hospital Food these days.

I have spent two days in different hospitals in this year. One for a heart
procedure and the other for kidney stone extraction. And I go to the VA
hospital for other care. The VA hospital food is lame at best. Tasteless
pap and a lot of vending machine choices. Their cafeteria is miserable.

Methodist Stone Oak Hospital. I was given a simple diet since they had just
cut me up. Breakfast was a descent breakfast taco. Good coffee,orange juice
an actual real cup of fruit. Lunch was pretty good as well, meatloaf with
mashed potato patties, a small salad, and squash casserole, and then I was
sent home.

Lastly, the Kerrville Sidney Peterson Hospital. The hospital food is
excellent. The administrator who is a friend from the ancient times in
Austin has created a restaurant that attracts people from the city for
lunch. He visited me at lunch. The fare was outstanding. A grilled pork
chop with wild rice, actual stewed tomato with some sauce that was quite
tasty. The always milk and a piece of real pie. I was given a choice menu.
Breakfast was what I ordered porridge with blue berries a banana, a small
pot  of tea with cream. Fresh baked toast with real butter and marmalade.

This hospital is not the rule but it attract people. They hire a chef from
a culinary school to up their class.

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 5:03 AM Byron Allen Black <
englishcorrection at gmail.com> wrote:

> And what is CRIMINAL is the way the medical profession, which is
> absolutely aware of this reality (they would HAVE to be) keeps mum about it.
>
> How many physicians are brave or determined enough to force their sick
> patients to go onto a proper diet? For that matter, what is hospital food
> like these days? Hate to imagine.
>
> [End of rant from foodie]
>
> On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 at 05:14, Frances Morey <frances.morey at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The people who admire their "private" health provider probably have not
>> had to use them. I know of people who paid premiums for years only to be
>> denied claims when the chips were down.
>>
>> The real problem with 100% health insurance coverage is that there are
>> too many sick people. It is estimated that 3/4 of the population is obese
>> and/or diabetic already. That leaves only one quarter of healthy folks
>> paying into the system.
>>
>> This is due to the Standard American Diet. If there is one lobby that
>> scares the bejesus out of lawmakers it is Big Food. Few people gleefully go
>> plant based even if they get to live longer. Well, not the whole population
>> at any rate.
>>
>> Even our poor people eat like King Henry VIII due to massive food
>> subsidies for animal food products. Virtual deregulation in addition to
>> food industry welfare through subsidies keeps food cheap. This is what
>> takes place in congress.
>>
>> Most of our chronic metabolic syndrome illnesses come from the Standard
>> American Diet which is spreading world wide. This problem is likely bigger
>> than Bernie realizes.
>>
>

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Charlie Loving
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