Perhaps not the best match for some patients but I would not begrudge a seriously ill cancer patient a medicaid cheeseburger.

In fact, when my mother in law was dying of liver failure, her doctor told her to eat mcdonalds to keep her appetite stimulated and her caloric intake up.

She was always going to die but ultimately from liver failure not malnutrition.

It doesn't really seem like that's the core of the clientele being billed here. I would rather pay for Mickey D's out of pocket for that specific situation rather than sacrifice the dietary health of other patients due to unscrupulous business practices of a vendor who's interested in cashing in on a vague food trend (to the detriment of the taxpayer and the patients' health).

Same when my dad was dying from cancer a few years ago. He was prescribed ice cream with "sprinkles" in an effort to get his caloric intake up.

In the end the cancer still got him, but it was less painful than the alternative of, essentially, starving to death.

Am I right to understand the basic issue is: people are, due to illness now homebound, and in the middle of nowhere? Like they used to live on the frontier or call it what you want but they used to drive 3 hours every few weeks to the closest grocery store? Now they have cancer, can’t leave the house, they are broke how are they gonna eat?

You can use food stamps to have a local Walmart or Amazon or a number of grocery stores deliver you frozen food at cost and either no fee or like $5-$10 max fee depending on retailer. But that is in cities. If there is really nothing that food stamps (SNAP) could do to remedy the situation (if you qualify for Medicaid, you qualify for food stamps, and vise versa, usually) I’m not sure if this is a big deal.

It definitely strikes me that if you’re billing Medicaid to feed me I better be getting hot meals from a nearby kitchen, not frozen shit, but maybe there are literally no commercial kitchens nearby.

Attack and shrink healthcare for the poor and all the good it does with selective attacks on the edges. The motives are transparent.

Has it come to this, that feeding people what is essentially toxic poisons, is considered healthcare?

How long has it been since you've had a Jimmy Dean sausage, and what actual food do you think you could replace it with for the same price?

Medicare is a almost a trillion-dollar program.

The fact that it pays millions for food is merely because the program is huge.

This just sounds like ragebait.