Still playing catch-up, but I wanted to draw attention to this link that I only saw because of Ta-Nehisi: the USDA actually told people to eat less for health in their latest round of recommendations. So, health care reform has definitely influenced policy outside of just medicine, as expected. Or that's my guess, anyway, because in the past the possibility that the USDA would actually tell people to restrict how much food they ate seemed remote to impossible. But with a renewed interest in saving money because of health care reform, the equation almost surely changed, and now the USDA had financial pressures coming not just from the food industry, but from health care sectors that have to find ways to cut costs or else.
