Un-be-livable

Check out this current food pyramid subsidy model. The daily recommended servings for each category of food is compared with how much federal farm subsidy the category receives.


Dairy and meat farmers get 50 billion dollars in farm subsidies while vegetables, one of the most healthy things we can put in our mouths, are getting slaughtered at the table of entitlement handouts.

Why??

It's because of money in Washington, that's why. Health care decisions are being determined by lawyers (sorry Matt) who are getting money from every which direction to stay in office. And then look at where our government spends our money.

Before we spend 3 trillion dollars (nope, that figure is not a typo) on a new health care entitlement program, how about we first stop spending $50 billion dollars on porterhouse steaks. If we want real change and a different arc in our health care inflation curve, the solutions exist not within the health care finance system, but on its periphery. In our grocery stores and in our kitchens. If we want a nation to eat from the current food pyramid, then we have to talk the talk . Unfortunately, the money is too powerful . Government subsidies are directly to blame, I suspect, for the fattening of our nation. This is the result of money and power driving policy.


This current food subsidies pyramid says it all. $50 billion dollars to eat meat. What a waste. Health care won't make you healthy. Vegetables will. Unfortunately, as the title of this picture says, a Big Mac costs less than a salad because our government makes it so. Unless we can get our population to start eating more salads and less Big Macs, we are all heading for the slaughterhouse along with the zucchinis and tomatoes.

But who asked me? I'm just a doctor. It's the lawyers who are determining how healthy we all get to be.