Whole Foods Versus Obama

http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2009/08/whole-foods-versus-obama

The CEO of Whole Foods, John Mackey, risks alienating all those Obama supporters who shop at his stores by publishing an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal that says, "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." The op-ed is sensible enought, but perhaps more interesting will be whether left-wing Web sites call for a boycott of Whole Foods, and whether the government in any way ramps up its regulatory oversight of the company.

by Editor  |  Aug 12, 2009 at 7:02 am Related Topics:  Health Care receive the latest by email: subscribe to the free futureofcapitalism.com mailing list