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.
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
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.
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
