11/17/25 Food Security Put at Risk in the Fight for Health Care

Note to Subscribers: I am out of the office this week and have left a 3-part series entitled “Food Security Put at Risk in the Fight for Health Care” to air this Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. I hope that a resolution to the impasse funding the government reached will restore SNAP funding authorization and that concerns over ACA subsidies are favorably dealt with.   ******************** Part 1 of 3 Preamble: SNAP and Affordable Care Act health insurance are both under the gun. The two social programs have fed a lot of people and provided access to our healthcare system for millions of families. They contribute along with Medicare, Medicaid and social security to our social safety net. This gets lumped together and described by ideologues as socialism but all most folks are thinking about is the basic need to assuage hunger and pursue health. It is personal rather than political to them. Most have become conditioned to see the divide in this country as being political, left versus right. The true divide however is economic, up versus down. This growing divergence between the top 10% and everyone else is accelerating. It used to be described as “how the other half lives”. Now, Moody’s Analytics…