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  • Ask any Whole Foods full time employee if they like their health benefits - they will tell you it's probably the best they've ever had, or even the best they could ever have.

  • Why do we think healthcare should be treated as a business? Why is it that our country thinks health is a privilege of net worth? And quit slamming liberals.

  • Are you seriously talking to me?

    Well, you see, things cost money. When a person goes to school and gets real smart it costs money. That person uses their smartness to help people, but helping people also cost money. Do you get it now? Those people need to give the smart doctor money, because he's saving them time by going to school for years to save their lives. Do you see? Do you see?

  • Why is it that liberals think health care is so different from every other good that is provided by the free market?

  • Like the right to an education, or, the right to an attorney, I think everyone should have the right to health care. I think it is a moral, civic and christian duty. And "single payer", can be done more cost effectively that our current system without leaving anyone out. I think that you should educate yourself about economics. Drugs and prostitution are not regulated. But everything else is to protect the public. Price gouging/fixing, transportation, utilities, commodities, all regulated.

  • I suppose this is all just far too complicated for people which aren't as smart as you to understand. You see, people which disagree with you are all very unintelligent, so they have to resort to over-simplifications in order to interpret their world. I have actually never heard that big evil corporations have been abusive. That totally shattered my world view.

    Now I realize that the iron fist of govt can rid the world of all these problems. It has worked so well every time it's been tried.

  • Don't forget to stop using oil or products shipped using oil products. Those oil types are real right wingers.

    No more products or materials "made in China", they have a horrendous human rights record.

    You should probably investigate the political ideology of the producers of everything you consume.

    Or you could realize that you can appreciate and patronize the services of people from all backgrounds, ideological and otherwise.

    I have never heard of a racist rejecting peanut butter, 4 example.

  • The private health care which doesn't suffer from being insured, and has a cost sensitive consumer, improves in both quality and price.

    Elective procedures where people react to price, like Lasik and cosmetic surgery are perfect examples of the market functioning as it should.

    The US system is not ranking poorly because it's private, but because it's expensive. People from all over the planet go to the US for care if they can afford it. Price sensitivity would fix the US system.

  • You're guessing wrong. I attacked some guy that said women make terrible leaders a few days back. This guy was a obviously a staunch conservative, so I asked him how he felt about Thatcher.

    So now you've gone 2 for 2 in guessing someone you don't know fits into a little box you have created for people that don't agree with you.

  • Might it be possible that this guy is not a republican or member of the GOP. Not everyone that disagrees with you is the same.

  • dissent will not be tolerated!!!

  • Way to go idiot liberals. Protest a company that employee people during the worst economic down turn since the great depression, because you don't like anyone not towing your stupid political line. God you people are such fascist."

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  • these ladys speaks in a very intelligent and decent way.

  • Funny, the reasonTV channel shows a much more disruptive group singing, dancing, and shouting *inside* the (private property) Whole Foods store. Why isn't any of that footage shown here? Here, it's just nice people quietly and unobtrusively holding signs to "raise awareness". I have to ask: Why? Why no clips of people trespassing on private property singing "Hey Mackey"? Why no clips of disruptive groups roaming through the store shouting through bullhorns?

  • I like Mackey and his employees like Mackey and their health coverage.

    The Adrian woman is a prime example of the brain dead academia of this country.

    There is big difference between intellectual (which she apparently is) and intelligent ( which she clearly is not)

  • Adrian claimed John mackey was attacking healthcare, his workers and Americans and that he employs bad labor practices but never substanciated those claims. He wrote an article disagreeing with the president, not attacking him or his plan. 70% of his employees voted for the healtcare plan the currently have.

  • Single payer is the end of all competition.

    Single payer is absolute power and will corrupt absolutely.

    People know this but they still want the "FREE" so bad they don't care.

  • We choose not to have health care and choose to be responsible for our own. That is what we are guaranteed in the constitution. We are not entitled to comfort. We are entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Single payer makes the gov't our Lord's and not our employees. People really need to look at the consequences before they sign on to this. I am a biochemist and my husband is an astrophysicist so we are aware and understand what is going on. Beware signing us all away!

  • Why are these communist sympathizers giving out their real names over the internet?

  • And, I'm for SINGE PAYER EVERYTHING. health, life , auto insurance, housing, food, clothing. These are all human RIGHTS. And, I think we should muzzle Mackey, and burn down his stores. Lets renege on our debts to China. Lets be real and change the name to "other payer". This one's on you, right?

  • Great point forwardmover, If healthcare is a right shouldn't food clothing and shelter be too? I want the government to pay for all of those things for me.

  • There are people who don't want to grow up, and are willing to be coddled and even infantiled. previously nature would have these people peris or not reproduce. Now we have the power mongers like Pelosi who are more than willing to steal (tax) from others more, to facilitate the dependency.

  • Obama is a Socialist.

    All the CEO of Whole Foods did was disagrea with the Presidant

  • Obama is bought out by the Banking Establishment, Lehman Brothers was his biggest contributor and he voted to hand off trillions to investment banks. Obama supports corporate give aways, those of us against socialist healthcare just support freedom and capitalism.

  • What happened at Enron was fraud. What occurred at Enron did not happen because of "less regulation" it happened because the CEO and the corporate board engaged in fraudulent practices. What happened with Maddoff was fraud, and the SEC not enforcing existing laws, the laws were in place but the SEC turned a blind eye. The SEC is a useless organization and waste of tax dollars and should be abolished.Our current crisis was caused by the Federal Reserve artificially lowering interest rates near 0.

  • Free, independent thought like a great patriot John Mackey, who has vastly superior ideas to Stalinists like Obama!

  • Patriots support Constitutionally LIMITED government. Those who think the government should be involved in healthcare, education, or economic planning are the traitors.

  • No. I'm on the same principled stance that Thomas Jefferson was on. "Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but ONLY those specifically enumerated."

    Patriots oppose socialist tyranny.

    Obamacare is TREASON

  • NIH, Natl Cancer Institute exist by STEALING from honest, capable private citizens. They have NO RIGHT TO EXIST in a free and just society. NONE!!

    ONLY private sector healthcare is moral.

    The federal government should not spend one single dime on healthcare. NOT ONE DIME!!!!

  • Leftists call for a boycott of Whole Foods... and their sales are better than ever.

    Leftists pressure advertisers to boycott Glenn Beck... and his ratings soar.

    When will leftists learn that they are in the minority?

  • All of history tells us that the private sector is better. Common sense tells us that government provides nothing that it does not first steal from the private sector. Everything of value comes from the private sector.

  • Leftists have nothing to justify their support for government theft, extortion, intrusion, and redistribution. So they pretend that Fox and Limbaugh aren't trustworthy.

  • You've repeated left-wing rants and myths that no thinking person would ever believe. Private healthcare is the only source of good healthcare. Government intrusion is always a net loss and always unjust.

  • Volunteer assistance is all the more proof we do NOT need government intrusion.

  • After government intrusion has wrecked the healthcare market, you want to surrender more of your rights so the politicians can make more empty promises?

  • "Constitutional Purist"? Meaning someone who believes that a promise made to the American people should be kept. And those who look for an excuse to break that promise are just dishonest thugs who can't be trusted with power.

  • The objective fact is that the private sector is better at providing healthcare than government bueraucracy. The objective fact is that the federal government has no rightful role intruding into the healthcare market.

    I can't always count on republicans to be right.

    But when has the democrats ever been right? recently?

  • I don't put Fox on a pedestral. Clearly Fox could be better. It's not conservative or libertarian or "right-wing" enough. Fox is just the best source of news on TV... other than maybe John Stossel, Lou Dobbs, Pat Buchanan.

  • I'm just speaking the truth. You can't stand that millions of Americans agree with Fox. Americans who respect freedom prefer Fox to all the left-wing nutjobs on CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, or PMS-NBC.

  • The problem with the health system is EXCESSIVE REGULATION; it is not that the government doesn't intrude enough!

  • Cost controls in Canada meant that most of the innovation comes from America's private health system. And Canada gets sloppy seconds!

  • FOX NEWS speaks the Truth. So quit pretending Fox News is something to be afraid of. It is cult thinking to believe that Obama, the most corrupt "president" in recent history gives a damn about you, or that anything he proposes will make your life any better.

  • The best defense against "corporate masters" is to limit the power of their sugar daddy, socialist government. Corporate welfare for lobbyists come from socialist policies. The best defense against corporate domination is limited government, ensuring a competitive market and empowered consumers.

  • Anything that is not explicitly authorized in the constitution is STEALING from the American people. The federal government has no right to intrude into healthcare, education, or economic planning. Think before you repeat left-wing rants.

  • The lame attempt to play on people's heartstrings to condone STEALING from them in order to fund a corrupt vote-buying scheme using healthcare as an EXCUSE is evil. The only moral healthcare system is PRIVATE healthcare.

  • Governing least means FREEDOM. Just because you hate freedom does not give you the right to impose your tyrannical lunacy on me, you arrogant thug.

  • 47M. A pathetically inflated number, including those who DON'T WANT insurance, those who are TEMPORARILY without insurance, and those who are here ILLEGALLY.

    Seniors are afraid of becoming dependent on MediScare. MediScare is a corrupt pyramid scheme, an injustice that should be either privatized or ended ASAP.

  • Insurance makes money by satisfying customers so that they voluntarily renew their contract and continue to pay their premiums. Governments' arbitrary mandates and regulations make insurance unaffordable and inaccessible. Without government intrusion, there would be more coverage and more quality care.

  • The freedom of consumers and competitors to keep the insurance companies honest is always better than trusting government. Thomas Jefferson clearly said the government is best which governs LEAST.

  • Insurance companies do NOT "arbitrarily" deny claims. They try to satisfy their customers the best they can considering that they are PERSECUTED by the government.

  • Why do left-wing idiots think that only insurance salesmen could support freedom over tyranny. I suppose the MAJORITY of Americans sell insurance. I suppose SENIORS sell insurance. What a joke!

  • Mackey spoke the truth. Left-wing lunatics will leave us with less healthcare, not more.

  • We used to call this kind of response "hippie fascism" when I was in college.

  • quite true. Fascism comes from the loony left. These tyrants who want to STEAL from insurance companies to impose their communist nonsense are the real fascists!

  • I'm going to Whole Foods tomorrow to buy healthy food like I've been doing for awhile now. I'll spend more than ever just because of this. What is "healthcare"? I don't trust it. I've seen people that I love die because they trusted pharmaceuticals that did not cure them but killed them.

  • pharmaceutical "healthcare" is the crap that scaremongers try to sell you when you don't take RESPONSIBILITY for your own health.

  • They want government-run, er, uh, I mean, single-payer health insurance? Ask someone who gets their healthcare from the VA what it's like. I retired from the military and pay for my own, excellent health care.

  • Doesnt look like much of a turnout Russell.

  • HR 3400, a real Health reform bill, is stuck in committee by the democrats who do not want you to know about it. This bill would empower patients not government.

  • They keep saying he attacked them, attacked their health. What article did they read? Don't they understand that if they succeed with the boycott and Whole Foods closes, the CEO will still be rich, but the 50,000 plus workers will lose their jobs, benefits, homes and where would the millions of liberals get their healthy food then? Who will support the now thousands of unemployed single mothers. The protesters will go back to their cushy jobs and town homes with a evil smile on their faces.

  • Don't they understand that Mackey represents freedom and "single-payer" is tyranny?

  • They can't. Emotion clouds reason and they are swept away with idea of being a part of "history" in the making. How many time have we been swept away by love or lust of the moment only to realize later that we were a fool, and wondering why couldn't we see the truth right before our eyes. Even now the veil is being lifting from many folks eyes. Just look at the poll numbers and how the Dems are resorting to name calling and the always handy race card.

  • The CEO of whole foods has done more for society than any of these a-holes. They way you boycott is to stop buying you hags. Single payer propaganda film. Notice not even the main stream media shows up to film these idiots. The only people you are hurting are the employees and yourselves.

    Look into what the CEO has actually done for people and his employees. Joining the "Single Payer" action group because you don't have a man in your life and your cats don't even like like you in no excuse.

  • This woman is like an evil doppelganger of our founding fathers! What delusional utopian fantasy is she living in?

  • Nationalize Whole Foods...give away the store for free...everybody will be happy...at least for a couple of weeks!

  • what is it about left-wing thugs that they advocate THEFT (nationalization) as the answer for any little gripe. PRIVATE PROPERTY protection made this country great. Nationalization is evil tyranny that will make the country descend into ruin.

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  • It's funny how these little brownshirt boycotters tout free speech when it suits only them.

  • Whole Foods provides HSA's for their employees. A program that advocates better health and individual responsibility must scare the heck out of single payer advocates. The whole idea of millions of Americans with tax-free FDIC insured health care nest eggs that can be passed from generation to generation is the antithesis of their being.

  • Whole Foods: you have now a new loyal customer.

  • I was Just thinking the same thing, plus I'll pay in Cash not welfare checks

  • Obama is a failure. Everyday more & more people are waking up...

  • Amazing... lefties can't stand any dissent from their party line.

  • corncat

    Newsflash: Mackey is a libertarian rightwing whackjob...

  • Russell Mokhiber is an idiot!

  • Republican and other outspoken opponents of medical reform want to wipe out Medicare, Medicaid and even increase what people pay for limited medical insurance.

    They want to destroy any reasonable form of affordable medical insurance and provide even greater long-term profits for insurance companies.

    Theyre not worried about end-of-life care; theyre worried about profits. And they know that with no real reform, Medicare, Medicaid and low-cost medical insurance will be financially wiped out.

  • Funny, but didn't Obama say he is NOT and NEVER HAS BEEN a proponent of Single Payer? Shows the depth of knowledge of this movement.

  • ROTFLMAO - there is a video of Obama stating he is FOR Single Payer and how he wants to get there.

    As Obama says - let's deal in truths!

  • Let me get this straight. Obamas health care plan will be written by a committee whose head says he doesnt understand it, passed by a Congress that hasnt read it, signed by a President that talks without facts and who smokes, funded by a treasury chief who did not pay his taxes, overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that is nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?

  • I will shop at whole foods. At least the store will be free of LIBERAL LOSERS.

  • GET A LIFE!!!!!!!! LOSERS

  • I am disappointed in Whole Foods CEO, I will be boycotting Whole Foods. The CEO appears to be betraying Whole Foods philosophy as well as Whole Foods customers, and of course now Whole Foods is now associated as being against healthcare human rights for all. So Whole Foods is just in it for the money like every corrupt corporation, NOT about social justice as they have pretended.

  • Could Mackey speak out without "using" his position? Could Obama state an opinion without "using" his position? Clearly not. Regardless of his personal position, Mackey is actually one of the "good guys" and if anyone would take the time to seriously review his personal/professional resume, they would undoubtedly come to the same conclusion. It is a reflection of personal ignorance for anyone to condem Mackey for bad labor practices ... anthropology professor or not. Bad labor practices? Hardly.

  • 5 Stars!

  • Very good Job. See the reports from the Commonwealth Fund and see the film "sick for profit" The U.S. deserves the best deal, not the worst. One dixth of the economy should not defeat the interests of 100 per cent of the American People

  • US deserves 100% PRIVATE healthcare.

    ONLY private healthcare is moral.

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