On Aug. 11, the CEO of Whole Foods wrote a WSJ op-ed advocating 8 specific proposals for really reforming healthcare.
https://kenhoma.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/improving-health-care-without-adding-to-the-deficit-8-specific-ideas/
Among his proposals: tort reform, equalized tax treatment of company-paid and private health insurance premiums, continuing health savings accounts, and access to insurance across state lines.
Unfortunately (for Whole Foods), most of his ideas aren’t part of ObamaCare since they impact trial lawyers and / or unions.
Most unfortunate, he failed to include a government run insurance option as one of his eight proposals.
Big mistake.
So, Whole Foods is now subject to a boycott.
Talk about angry mobs …
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Whole Foods Boycotted by Liberals for CEO’s Anti-Obama Health Care Position
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/08/19/whole-foods-boycotted-by-liberals-for-ceos-anti-obama-health-ca/
The grocery store Whole Foods is facing a boycott organized by liberal activists because the CEO opposes President Obama’s health care reform proposals.
The company’s chief executive, John Mackey, wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed on health care that has roiled the liberal blogosphere and prompted calls for a boycott.
“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,” Mackey wrote in the WSJ.
“Instead, we should be trying to achieve reforms by moving in the opposite direction — toward less government control and more individual empowerment.”
The boycott leaders are organizing via the Huffington Post.
“To me, it’s pretty basic: Mackey is working to oppose things I believe in, so I should stop giving him money,” wrote Ben Wyskida, who also works for the liberal magazine, The Nation. In a column titled “Why I’m Done with Whole Foods,” he said: “Mackey has confirmed for me that my money is going to support deregulation of the insurance industry, lies about the current health care proposal, and a crusade to lecture people who can’t access or can’t afford healthy food. I’m just not going to go there.”
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