Last week, John Mackey published an alternative to Obama healthcare in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that attacked not only the Democratic health care plan but the very idea that basic medical care (or for that matter, food) was something that everybody was entitled to. He provides some down-to-earth ideas.

The interesting thing is that John Mackey is the founder and CEO of Whole Foods. You know, the company that is the model of liberal corporate citizenship. It has well-paid, well-insured workers, a commitment to healthy eating and organic farming, and slabs of $19.99-a-pound wild salmon. It is the place that the health-conscious, socially-conscious, upper-middle-class establishment could call their own. This is a man who gives all of his workers health insurance when many of his competitors don't and whose whole business is about selling to the organic enviro-conscious Obama voters.

Now liberal commentators are up in arms and a movement to boycott Whole Foods has sprung up overnight.

Read Mackey's 8 suggested reforms that would greatly lower the cost of health care for everyone.
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