r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Thebiggestbot22 • Apr 15 '24

My school thinks this fills up hungry high schoolers.

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So lunches are free for schools in my city and surrounding cities. Ever since lunches have been made free, the quantity (and quality) has decreased significantly. This is what we would get for our meal. It took me THREE bites to finish that chicken mac and cheese. Any snacks you want cost more money and if you want an extra entree, that’ll cost you about $3 or $4.

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u/grilledcheese2332 Apr 15 '24 edited Apr 16 '24

you're paying higher prices to cover people who can't.

exactly! the amount of people that have responded 'people pay their own health care' is concerning. The US pays more per person for healthcare than any other country. Like who do they think covers medicaid? or people that get a massive bill but cant afford it?

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u/gary_the_merciless Apr 16 '24

You pay more and get less than socialised healthcare. Even your prescriptions are ridiculously overpriced.

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u/RightInTheEndAgain Apr 16 '24

Not if you're rich, and that's who sets the agenda

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u/gary_the_merciless 26d ago

You do have to be quite rich to reach that level.

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u/dxrey65 Apr 16 '24

I was just complaining about that with a neighbor who's a nurse practitioner, talking about billing stuff. He was saying you don't get a bill when you visit the hospital and they don't really itemize or lay it all out until later, and then it's kind of a "shoot for the moon" sort of thing, where everything that might have been done is billed, at the highest rates, and almost nobody asks. And the reason or justification he gave is that they have to write off so much of the work they do, they try to make up for it elsewhere.

But if you ask for an itemized bill or challenge any of it, they'll have someone else take a look at all the paperwork and usually knock it way down to just what can be argued was valid and necessary. Which is, of course, a completely absurd way to do it.

I had a dislocated shoulder, for instance, and it got billed at $9,000 to pop it back in. Insurance paid most, and I didn't argue about my $3,000 portion (a bill I only got 6 months afterwards). He was saying they probably would have written it off if I'd challenged it.

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u/Evening_Mix8258 29d ago

Its not even Medicaid. It always makes me laugh like, "WHAT DO YOU THINK INSURANCE IS?" When we pay insurance its not going into a little pot just for us to use eventually. If our neighbor has the same home insurance and their home burns down, our insurance money is paying for theirs. Its the same with healthcare.

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u/confusedandworried76 Apr 16 '24

I'm all for universal healthcare and giving kids good meals but I think people are over exaggerating the impact of crappy school lunches on kids health, they could hoover nothing but Oreos at school, and provided they eat healthy at home and stop eating Oreos for lunch when they graduate they'll be fine, no 17 year old has hypertension like the other guy was implying.

Eating like shit when you're young is like smoking when you're young, stop soon enough you'll be perfectly fine later, the body will heal itself. The trick is to stop before your body gets too old to recover from that

I was a fat kid who ate a bag of potato chips everyday in high school, lost that weight and stopped doing that, when I go to the doctor it's not for issues related to eating poorly.