{"id":530187,"date":"2010-04-16T13:04:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T17:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004629"},"modified":"2010-04-16T05:19:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T09:19:58","slug":"should-insurance-companies-be-investing-in-fast-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/530187","title":{"rendered":"Should Insurance Companies Be Investing In Fast Food?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/kfcdeadend-thumb-240x160-39377.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>A new study in the American Journal of Public Health states that several of the biggest U.S. health insurers are heavily invested in fast food companies, to the tune of $2 billion. This news has caused some to ask whether or not the insurance companies&#8217; vested interest in the growth of fast food stands in direct contrast to their interest in having healthy policy holders.<\/p>\n<p>Among the companies named in the study is Prudential Financial Inc., which has a total of $355.5 million invested in a selection of fast food giants that includes McDonald&#8217;s, Burger King, Jack-in-the-Box and Yum! Brands.<\/p>\n<p>Northwestern Mutual has an even bigger fast food portfolio, with $422.2 million tied up in fast food stock &#8212; $318.1 million of that invested in McDonald&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Says the Harvard doc who authored the study:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s a ton of irony in it&#8230; In order to generate profits, they will invest in any area they need to &#133; to make money, even if what they invest in, in this case fast food, is an industry that is known to cause people to get sick and to die early.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think?<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/3063272.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\/poll\/3063272\/\">Should insurance companies be invested in fast food?<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/features-surveys\/\">customer surveys<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2010\/04\/15\/health\/main6400285.shtml\" >Health Insurers&#8217; Fast Food Holdings Raise Flag<\/a> [CBS News]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study in the American Journal of Public Health states that several of the biggest U.S. health insurers are heavily invested in fast food companies, to the tune of $2 billion. This news has caused some to ask whether or not the insurance companies&#8217; vested interest in the growth of fast food stands in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}