[AGL] What's Wrong With Medicare for All

[Frances Morey]

A brother-in-law here in Corpus Christi had to go in for a stent to force
open his clogged artery. For breakfast he was given eggs, bacon and
buttered toast, which was what got him there in the first place. Someday
he'll have to get another stent, or maybe not.
Best,
Frances

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 7:31 AM Charles Loving <lovingigor at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>>
>>
>
> --
> Charlie Loving
>
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