Attention shoppers!

[ksmith]

Whole Foods shoppers, that is. Their CEO has an op-ed in the WSJ a couple of days ago. it wasn't what I expected.

Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and shelter it is best provided through voluntary and mutually beneficial market exchanges. A careful reading of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution will not reveal any intrinsic right to health care, food or shelter. That's because there isn't any. This "right" has never existed in America.

The rest is here.

By way of AmericaBlog.

I've shopped at Whole Foods once, several months ago. To tell the truth, I wasn't overly impressed.

Comments

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

My humble opinion? People of a certain age associate "socialism" with "communism." Hearing about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for a couple of generations didn't help. Explaining the difference between socialism and communism wouldn't help. Explaining that just about every person screaming about this 1) wouldn't be affected by a public option or 2) would be helped by a public option wouldn't help.

In some circles, it's about more than health care. There are cultural seismic shifts taking place over here, with about as much shaking and breaking as one might expect.

I feel that at bare minimum, we need a public option. We'll see if we get it.