
Whole Foods Boss On Half-Baked Health Care Proposal (and more…)
Like it or not, there is something distinctly, even "raw"-ly capitalistic about shopping at Whole Foods. If you believe my friends in the ag business, it’s darned hard to prove that organic food has any better nutritional value than conventionally-grown products. But that doesn’t stop Whole Foods from making money in a sector long thought to operate on razor thin margins with very little consumer loyality. And today I learn that the company’s CEO is really a living, breathing capitalist.
John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods penned an op ed column in today’s Wall Street Journal. To wit, on health care reform proposals:
"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."
"While all of us empathize with those who are sick, how can we say that all people have more of an intrinsic right to health care… Read More