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John Mackey: The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare – WSJ.com

Posted by GruntDoc on 12th August 2009

John Mackey is the CEO of Whole Foods.

John Mackey: The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare – WSJ.com
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. Here are eight reforms that would greatly lower the cost of health care for everyone:

Make sure you read toward the end to see what the Whole Foods Canada employees ask for…

Update: the reality based community took this very well

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