>>83087015
okay, pass a law saying "no business shall be liable if someone gets sick from eating food that the business donated".
Passing a bill is free. No government buying food. No government distribution program. no perverse voting incentives.
If the grocery stores still don't want to donate surplus stuff for whatever reason, it isn't the concern of the government in the first place.
>>83087050
it's basically welfare for doctors. "Lets see how many extra tests and procedures we can do to keep grandma alive another six weeks, who cares if it's $200k, the government is reimbursing us". Over a third of all medicare dollars are spent on people in their last six months of life. That's after the over a quarter that's just wasted by fraud. Government should not be involved in paying for healthcare, at all, for anyone, ever.