Funny: Nanny Bloomberg's own health department handing out coupons for fast food

It's an incentive to try to get TB patients to receive treatments.

He said the agency is currently evaluating the program and considering healthier eateries.

Over the past 10 fiscal years, the city has spent $3.3 million on the TB giveaways, which also include coupons for variety stores and bookstores, but less than $300,000 of that total came from tax dollars, said agency spokeswoman Jessica Scaperotti.

The amount given to each patient differs depending on individual progress, but the average patient receives $130 worth of free food and $580 in MetroCards, Scaperotti said.

Amazing, and unfortunately they probably have to do this, because if they don't, people won't show up for follow up treatments and we end up with resistant strains of TB.  It's still too much fun to rub stuff like this in Nanny Bloomberg's face. 

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