{"id":951349,"date":"2026-05-10T22:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/951349\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T22:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:42:12","slug":"opinion-rfk-jr-s-war-on-jell-o-shows-why-government-cannot-run-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/951349\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | RFK Jr.\u2019s war on Jell-O shows why government cannot run health care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"CH562P3ZBVGDRPVTITHIXSJSGU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">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.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"SMT3LVK4PBHN3BJZCWHAU5E5YE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Kennedy\u2019s team is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/rfk-jr-healthy-food-agenda-hospitals-patient-meals\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/rfk-jr-healthy-food-agenda-hospitals-patient-meals\/\">threatening to cut off<\/a> federal funding for hospitals if they continue serving items with too much added sugar. The leader of the \u201cMake America Healthy Again\u201d movement thinks he knows better than medical providers and patients what\u2019s best for them, and he\u2019s using the coercive power of government to substitute his judgment for theirs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No one likes hospital food, but bowls of Jell-O and glasses of orange juice may soon be remembered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-951349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}