Bad news for Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, who wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal bashing not the specifics of health care reform, but the entire concept of reform - I'm not a socialist, John. I'm a capitalist. And in the grand capitalist tradition of freely choosing within the marketplace, I'm choosing to boycott the hell out of your little store (not that I could afford to shop there anyway) and tell all my little progressive friends about it, too. (via Americablog.)
Two interesting tidbits I read in the last few days: First of all, there is no health care proposal in Congress. There are at least five different health care proposals floating around D.C., including at least three different bills in Congress. So anyone who claims that this thing or that thing is in "the" health care reform bill, they're either lying or uninformed.
Second, the New York Times points out that only a small number of Americans purchase their own health insurance on the open market. The rest are on Medicare, Medicaid, VA plans, private plans selected by their employers or have no insurance at all. The reform-opponents fretting about the government taking away their freedoms apparently have no qualms about HMOs or their own bosses making decisions for them.
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