After reading around we found the LA Times summed it all up quite nicely:
“Poor old Whole Foods Market. As if that “Whole Paycheck” joke wasn’t mean enough, now there are lots of shoppers who say they won’t go there to buy things anymore.
To recap: On Aug. 11, the Wall Street Journal ran an opinion piece by the company’s chief executive, John Mackey, in which he spoke against deeper government involvement in the nation’s healthcare.
Americans, he said, should be responsible for their own health. Like, for example, by eating healthy food (of the kind Whole Foods sells).
“While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system. Instead, we should be trying to achieve reforms by moving in the opposite direction—toward less government control and more individual empowerment,” Mackey wrote.”
John Mackey’s put a gun to his mouth before, but this takes the cake. Lumpen is now boycotting Whole Foods. Today, Trader Joe’s took our money.
Join the boycott.
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August 25, 2009 at 3:00 pm
merle
the whole foods guy is a douchebag, but do you really want the govt. in your bank account, and mandating insurance on people who can’t afford it?
and letting the insurance comapnies and the pharmaceutical companies wring the terms and policies of your health care?
maybe self-responsibility is the best alternative.
September 1, 2009 at 10:58 pm
TS
“Self-responsibility” is fine, but only if you’re rich enough to afford medical care. How do you pay for, say, that $400,000 heart bypass if you’re not rich?
Oh, sure, you can go to County, but that’s not self-responsibility. County is funded by taxes.
Your choices are: (1) be rich enough to afford your health care, or (2) let an insurance company decide what health care you get, or (3) let the government decide what health care you get.
At least with (3), we have some input in what gets done.
If you think you have input with (2), you obviously don’t have health insurance.