Mr. Mackey’s op-ed in the WSJ

The version printed in the Wall Street Journal can be found here:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052970204251404574342170072865070.html

Mr. Mackey’s ‘full’ version:

http://www2.wholefoodsmarket.com/blogs/jmackey/2009/08/14/health-care-reform-full-article/

4 Replies

  1. sm

    August 25, 2009 at 10:23 pm

    Isn’t he from Texas and the headquarters of Whole Foods is from Texas. Therefore, no big surprise. Though I was hoping otherwise.

    I will be shopping at the Co-op Market organic grocery store going forward.

  2. salley becker

    August 30, 2009 at 3:29 pm

    We live in America!! Isn’t one given the right to free speech? What will you do next, go after his family! Shame on you. I love whole foods and his personal views do not matter.

  3. Peg

    August 30, 2009 at 6:27 pm

    I read the WSJ article in its entirety and I don’t see the problem. His points are well spoken and I’m tired of more and more of our income being taxed for governmental use. There definitely needs to be reforms to enable the health care system to be more inclusive. Mr. Mackey gave several good examples of reforms to enable a privately based health care system to work better. We need to work on the economic system so that more Americans are covered with health care, not add more government anything.

  4. Brian

    September 3, 2009 at 2:51 am

    Mr. Mackey asserts that “A careful reading of both The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution will not reveal any intrinsic right to health care, food or shelter, because there isn’t any. This “right” has never existed in America.” Health care, food and shelter are esentials to life.

    Apparently, he missed the right to “life” and the role of government to secure this right in this part of the Declaration of Independence, which reads “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the govern.”