Whole Foods CEO: On second thought, ObamaCare isn’t “fascist”

While Mackey may have had to pull back on using the word “fascist” to describe Obamacare, he still is in favor of market-based solutions, as he was when he wrote in this opinion piece for the WSJ in August, 2009:

With a projected $1.8 trillion deficit for 2009, several trillions more in deficits projected over the next decade, and with both Medicare and Social Security entitlement spending about to ratchet up several notches over the next 15 years as Baby Boomers become eligible for both, we are rapidly running out of other people’s money. These deficits are simply not sustainable. They are either going to result in unprecedented new taxes and inflation, or they will bankrupt us.

While we clearly need health-care reform, 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. Here are eight reforms that would greatly lower the cost of health care for everyone …

He then went on to list eight reforms that closely match what Republicans were talking about at the time.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204251404574342170072865070.html>

He caught a lot of flack from the left when that WSJ piece came out, too.

Reno_Dave on January 18, 2013 at 1:38 PM

Fixed link to Mackey’s WSJ opinion piece:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204251404574342170072865070.html

Reno_Dave on January 18, 2013 at 1:40 PM