No one likes hospital food, but bowls of Jell-O and glasses of orange juice may soon be remembered as relics of an era of delicious dining if Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gets his way.
Kennedy’s team is threatening to cut off federal funding for hospitals if they continue serving items with too much added sugar. The leader of the “Make America Healthy Again” movement thinks he knows better than medical providers and patients what’s best for them, and he’s using the coercive power of government to substitute his judgment for theirs.