Interesting Opinion Piece from John Mackey

John Mackey is the co-founder and CEO of ultra-liberal and progressive Whole Foods. He has written an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal that boils down to a very different version of healthcare reform than what is being pushed by the current administration. He states that rather than a new and hugely expensive entitlement program, we need to improve the private sector to make it more cost effective (both insurance and the actual medical care) and make it easier for people to donate money to help insure the uninsured. I love this quote from the article:

At Whole Foods we allow our team members to vote on what benefits they most want the company to fund. Our Canadian and British employees express their benefit preferences very clearly—they want supplemental health-care dollars that they can control and spend themselves without permission from their governments. Why would they want such additional health-care benefit dollars if they already have an “intrinsic right to health care”? The answer is clear—no such right truly exists in either Canada or the U.K.—or in any other country.

I also find it interesting that some liberals are boycotting Whole Foods because of this. I think I will have to shop there more often. Considering the low quality of produce at my local Kroger stores lately, this will not be a great hardship.