When will food policy be tied to health care?
A. It’s going to take time. It’s a large industry and we need to hold them accountable for the way they process food and the treatment of the animals in the food chain. It is long overdue. Having Dr. (and New Hampshire First Lady Susan) Lynch and Michelle Obama talking about this issue helps. If you look back at the autopsies of the young men killed in the Second World War, they were walking cardiac arrests. They had hardening of the arteries, pre-cardiac and pre-diabetes issues. It is a huge problem because we didn’t think about what we put into our bodies. I do ask questions about the source of the food I consume in a restaurant or at the grocery store. Q. The state Supreme Court sided with you and prevented the state from taking the excess funds from the medical malpractice fund. A. Physicians financed a fund to provide medical malpractice practice insurance because there were no carriers in the state in 1975. So they created their own little medical malpractice fund with assistance
