Healthy hospital food makes people happy.
A nation this wealthy should have healthy
meals for everyone in a hospital.
People in a hospital still need food,
but making it healthy takes time and makes
unhealthy frustration for the people
stuck to old ways that once made them happy.
Sadly, this does not make patients happy.
They would like to eat meals that are healthy
while getting better in a hospital.
Everyone knows that the price of good food
costs more than the average person makes,
so governments chosen by the people
must raise taxes to care for the people
and more taxes make people unhappy
and make their bank accounts so unhealthy,
causing stress—more folks in the hospital—
where they will want to have healthier food
no matter the cost or trouble it makes.
Given this dilemma, it surely makes
sense to pay attention to the people
who want two things at once to be happy:
meals that taste delicious, being healthy,
and lower payments to the hospital.
Cheap quality! Now there’s a thought for food.
Eating nothing beats consuming junk food,
so this will work if each hospital makes
nothing at all for all of the people,
who should rejoice and then feel quite happy
knowing that the bank accounts are healthy
with no bad food served in the hospital.
This will cause hunger in the hospital,
with no money for meals—but no bad food.
Wouldn’t it be great if this someday makes
our government spend more on the people
and less on what makes bureaucrats happy.
It will be healthy in a hospital
when folks eat good food and government makes
plans for the people to keep them happy.
Poet’s note: Why does it take a crazy person to come up with a sane plan? Still, more people would find this plan convincing if it included a reversal of marketing strategies that charge more money for including fewer harmful ingredients. As it stands now, healthy food that the government now demands costs more than junk food that hospitals can afford.
See “RFK Jr.’s healthy food agenda puts hospitals on notice about patients’ meals” by Stephanie Armour, CBS News, 30 April 2026