So Thankful for Health Care “Reform”

Posted on August 15, 2009
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I’m still worried, but I’m also hopeful that so called health care “reform” (meaning a government takeover of the US health care system) will finally wake Americans up to what our elected officials and other liberals are trying to do to this country. It’s obvious to anyone who has read the House bill (H.R. 3200) that those claiming this bill is good for us are at best misrepresenting what is actually in it. This includes wannabe American dictator Barak Obama. Since they can’t win the arguments against the bill on the merits of the bill itself, they have resorted to personal attacks on opponents of the bill, and not just verbal. After the Obama regime sent out an email to supporters asking them to show up at town hall meetings and counter the “disinformation” about the health care bill, union goons roughed up opponents of the bill, including a black conservative and another man with advanced cancer. This shouldn’t be a surprise given Obama’s background in Chicago politics and associations, including Bill “I wish I’d planted more bombs” Ayers and Jeremiah “God d*** America”  Wright.

OK, so liberal politicians hate the institutions this country was founded on, and hate individual liberty (why else would they want to tell us what doctor we’re “allowed” to see, or what treatment we’re “allowed” to get). No surprise there. It turns out though that even rank and file liberals seem to hate the concept, and their contempt for individual liberties is now on open display thanks to Whole Foods Market’s CEO, John Mackey.

In the August 12 Wall Street Journal, Mr. Mackey wrote an op-ed that dared to criticize H.R. 3200. Instead of just criticizing H.R. 3200 though, the article also offered possible solutions – based on what actually works for Whole Foods. Here are the health care benefits Whole Foods offers to their employees:

1. Whole Foods lets their employees vote on what type of health care benefits should be covered by the company
2. Whole Foods pays 100% of the health insurance premium for employees who work 30 hours a week or more
3. Whole Foods deposits up to $1800 annually into each employee’s Personal Wellness Account to spend as they choose on their own health and wellness. Money not spent rolls over into the next year

Unfortunately, Whole Food’s customer base is largely liberal, and they went apoplectic when the piece was published. Over 4000 negative comments were posted on Whole Foods’ Internet forum. As one poster put it,

“While it was a horrible business move, it was a great courtesy,” a commenter identified as boycottwf wrote. “Now, I know that my dollars spent at whole foods are going to fund your misguided conservative views.”

All Whole Foods has done is provide their employees with excellent health care coverage, along with a model (that has been proven to work) for the rest of the country on how a good system that gives consumers control over their own health care choices, leaves those choices up to the consumers and their doctors, and most importantly keeps government out of things that are no damn business of the government. For this they are being excoriated by their liberal customers. If this isn’t proof that liberals only care about government control, and not what is good for individual citizens – you know, the ones government is supposed to serve – then I don’t know what is.

This is what liberalism is about – they don’t care about you, they just care about controlling you. That is why Mr. Mackey’s critics are so upset. He provides concrete evidence that people can get good health care without government control. Even worse, he shows how more government control will actually have a detrimental effect on US health care. They hate him for exposing the truth.

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