Celebrity Chef Michel Nischan Wants to Tap Medicaid to Pay for Produce

“It’s the rare celebrity chef who is also a policy wonk, but that at least partly describes Michel Nischan, a three-time James Beard Award winning chef who’s as conversant as anyone in Congress on the nuances of the farm bill. Nischan is also a food activist and innovator who figured out how to leverage the massive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) within the farm bill to promote increased fruit and vegetable consumption through the company he founded, Wholesome Wave. Now Nischan is setting his sights on fostering even bigger change through Medicaid, the federal program that provides health insurance to low-income Americans.”

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