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GCH = Government Controlled Healthcare

LibertySpan salutes Mr. John Mackey, CEO and one of the founders of Whole Foods Market, as a Liberty Leader

Whole Foods Market is a great place to shop, and a great corporate citizen.

I heard John Mackey speak at a recent FreedomFest event, and I can attest that he is a true American Patriot.

An intelligent, creative thinking, liberal-minded, Libertarian!

Here is a great Wall Street Journal article penned by Mr. Mackey, which lays out much better alternatives to the ObamaCare Welfare State approach.

Apparently, Whole Foods Market employees have REAL Liberal health insurance. Lots of control for the people, and extra bucks to boot. Totally cool, by San Francisco standards!

I wonder how many of those Collectivists shopping in especially his San Francisco stores know what a smart avant garde businessperson Mackey is, or how happy WFM employees are with their excellent alternative to ObamaCare, namely a REAL CHOICE combination high-deductible indemnity plan, combined with employee-owned health savings assets (accounts).

Supposedly 100% of employee premiums paid, with $1800 of HSA bonus bucks, for employees to spend on healthcare, as they wish! Sounds like REAL liberal health insurance to me!

Of course, Whole Foods Market customers are generally smart, and have their own REAL Preventive Care Program, eating as healthily as they do. You would think they would want a plan similar type similar to excellent plan that the Whole Foods Team has voted in.

These progressive shoppers could save so much in premium and taxes, and they could invest in solar panels, or spend more at places like …. Whole Foods Market.

Now, that would be a great stimulus, including for local growers and food producers.

I would like to suggest that WFM shoppers who might be in favor of the English, French or Canadian system, consider asking WFM employees how they feel about their plan, including factors such as quality of care, freedom of choice, out-of-pocket costs,etc.

Already, a few adherents of Collectivist / “Other-Payer” / Welfarenomics are reacting to Mackey’s article, by urging a boycott. My suspicion is that this could only hurt Obama … because people tend to support those who help feed them, while doing it so well.

The proof might be in the pudding aisle? Talk (nicely) to the man or woman who restocks the goodies there.

MackeyCare? Why not give every citizen a Mackeycare type policy? Guaranteed issue. No major exclusions. Using premium savings to incentivize and reward preventive care and result outcomes( eg weight loss) ? What people don’t spend on healthcare, they can use to supplement social security, which could be extremely important.

I urge all Liberty Lovers to support John Mackey and WFM however they can.

And, WFM shoppers … perhaps talk to WFM Employees, nicely … about how they feel about their plan.

I am sure we can all agree that its good to be truly liberal-minded.

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Thus far, I have not had much experience, or interest, in following “think tank” types.

But, came across The New America Foundation, due to a link at MSN Money, regarding better ways to save money.

Quite scary. I have known a few people who really wanted to change the world in a radical way. But, they have mostly been fairly eccentric.

The fellows at this liberal (aka Progressive) “think tank” are obviously smart, at least based on their educational successes and publications, etc.

Regarding healthcare finance agenda of The Left, according to Michael Lind:

Progressives hope, and conservatives fear, that the public plan over time will absorb more and more American workers, eventually becoming a de facto single-payer system.

Something else about this article.

I have difficulty with this Collectivist’s use of the term “social contract“. Is that like a legal contract, which people are supposed to be able to enter into voluntarily? I doubt it. Why not instead use “enforced social scheme”? Obviously, that what he is describing, right? Let’s be honest.

I get nauseous thinking about “social engineering” types, who want to make radical, or just very significant, changes in the world, impacting large groups of people. WTF!

Its apparent that they believe that they are qualified to create these new schemes; and the tone of this article seems like one of confidence of success. (Why do I sense this fellow might not even know how to change his own oil?)

I just have to say the the implied sense of entitlement and grandiosity is quite nauseating.

I suppose if you have lots of schooling, and a giant ego, and maybe want to be respected as an egghead, and need to make a living, this is what these people do.

I thank this gentleman for his honesty.

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