Which firms profit most from America’s health-care system (2018)

Re:Which firms profit most from America’s health-care system... by AuryGlenz on Saturday July 04, 2020 @11:19AM (#23732832)

Vegetables are cheap. Beans are cheap. Chicken and turkey are cheap.

McDonalds is not cheap, but it’s easy. It astounds me how many people eat out almost every meal.

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Re:Which firms profit most from America’s health-care system... by vertbhrtn on Saturday July 04, 2020 @11:32AM (#23732938)

Beans and all that isn't cheap overall: it takes will, effort and time to figure out what to buy and how to cook it. If that was packaged into cheap ready to eat burgers, spiced with something to make it more tolerable, then poor folks would switch to it. This approach isn't economically sound, though: it has 0 profit margins and it cuts deep into the fastfood & healthcare owners.

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Re:Which firms profit most from America’s health-care system... by mschuster91 on Saturday July 04, 2020 @01:02PM (#23733506)

They are cheap if bought in bulk (which many poor people can't do because of upfront cost or lack of freezer space) and if there actually is a place to buy at least decent-quality vegs.

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Re:Which firms profit most from America’s health-care system... by jogjayr on Saturday July 04, 2020 @12:46PM (#23733416)

Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert

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Re:Which firms profit most from America’s health-care system... by amelius on Saturday July 04, 2020 @12:42PM (#23733394)

Quality vegetables aren't cheap. At least not for the consumer.

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