From Slate.com:
HEALTH CARE HYPOCRISY
Many of the pundits attacking government health insurance rely on government health insurance for their own families.
By Daniel Gross
Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009, 9:46 AM ET
You have to give Whole Foods CEO John Mackey credit for having the
courage of his convictions. Last week, the libertarian penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal
arguing that national health care was a step toward socialism and
advocating a series of alternative steps—including healthier eating and
high-deductible insurance policies of the type that Whole Foods
employees are offered. A Whole Foods spokeswoman told me that Mackey
"participates in the same plan that is offered to all of our Whole
Foods Market team members," which includes a "combination of
high-deductible health insurance and a Personal Wellness Account."
(Whole Foods pays the premium for full-timers' health insurance and
puts up to ,800 into the savings accounts.) In Mackey's case, what's
good for the free-range goose is good for the free-range gander.
The same can't be said for the legions of people you hear on
television, or read in the op-ed pages, or chat with at weekend
barbecues, raging about taxpayer-funded health care as an unworkable,
inefficient, Orwellian evil . . . . .
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