Whoa! Better lighten up. Life is too short to be taken that seriously.

I'm not sick of Obama. In fact I think the man is doing a great job concidering what was handed to him on Jan 20. it took more than 7 months for things to get like this and it will take more 7 months to fix it. I think a person should get some form health care. My wife was sick and I took her to urgent care and they sent her to the emergency room. Half of every one in there had no health insurance. So who do you think pays for that? I do, you do, anyone that has insurance pays more to cover the people who don't. People who don't have insurance still go to the doctor or to the hospital.It's just a matter of who pays for it.

You are completely unhinged my friend.

Russell,
your right the people with insurance now do pick up the slack for people who dont.
now if this is allready fact why change things to where we are doing the same, but raise our taxes to do so, and give us worse care in the process.

my healthcare is very good, but i work for a small firm. the second there is a "free" public option avialble my company will drop my coverage, and force me to take the "free" option, and i cant say that i blame them.

than i go from great health coverage to VA hospital-free clinic type coverage.
anyone who thinks this is an insult, or not so bad should go visit a VA hospital to see how our vets are treated before trying to force the whole country into this type of care.

the gov should be forced to fix the programs in place before expanding them, and pretending there working fine.

In Canada and UK, Europe and pretty much everywhere else people live free there's universal health care and it's free. Everyone's in. No one's left out. We think we're so much better than everyone else, so why not here?

John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods Market, doesn't like poor, working Americans because they do not shop at his overpriced stores. How selfish can a person be to want to deny poor people health care? Mr. Mackey must have a heart of stone. I'm glad his stores are doing so poorly. What goes around, comes around Mr. Scrooge. This health care reform bill was President Obama's #1 campaign promise. I'm tired of the monopoly that the insurance companies have held on this country. They are thieves. It's time to give them some competition.

Judith Howard comes off like a grade school girl in this article. Her maunderings about Whole Foods saving people from themselves by building stores everywhere, and essentially giving away food, is one of the most profoundly ignorant, naive, foolishly idealistic, and unrealistic bunch of drivel I have ever read. Good grief!

An unintended consequence of her moony eyed article is the clear differentiation between the liberal and conservative world view.

Judith represents the liberal belief that people need to be saved from themselves, supported, fed, housed, and employed by one entity or another, at the expense, and likely eventual failure of those entities. Liberals see a problem and immediately want to solve it with someone else's money. They inevitably want to transfer the responsibility for an individuals health and well being to various businesses, the taxpayers, wealthy people, or anyone that can be hitched to the welfare wagon. The individual is never held responsible for his own predicament, or expected to pay the price for his bad eating habits, drug use, wasteful spending , etc.

Liberals see the individual as weak, confused, dependent, and needing the government to survive. Strong, successful, independent individuals are seen by liberals alternately as a threat, and a source of money.

Liberals see government as an ever expanding parent that eventually makes decisions on virtually all facets of life. To liberals, a citizen becomes progressively more and more dependent on the government's controlling care.

Conservatives believe in virtues, such as hard work, self reliance. discipline, prudent spending, and morality based personal life. They believe that the fruits of their hard work should be theirs. They generally resent being forced to share with people who won't get an education or training, work hard, prepare for the future, etc. They resent having to support drug addicts, criminals, etc. who squander their money on instant gratification, and then expect more and more money from those who aren't living profligate lifestyles.

Conservatives want small, efficient government that facilitates free enterprise, but doesn't intrude. Conservatives are very wary of the power usurping nature of government.

Conservatives see the individual as responsible for his survival and his actions. Self determination is essential for success, and the school of hard knocks is considered the most valuable education.

Given the inherently parasitic nature of the liberal methodology for social solutions, is it any wonder this country hasn't reformed health care? Conservatives don't like leeches hanging all over them.

I support president Obama. I am not sick.

I have common sense. I have an MD and an MBA. I have been a health care CEO. I support Obama. I support health care reform because the current non-sysetm is horrible. Obama is doing an outstanding job. he will be re-elected and would be re-elected for life if he wants.

"a diet consisting of foods that are plant-based, nutrient dense and low-fat will help prevent and often reverse most degenerative diseases that kill us and are expensive to treat."

These comments by John Mackey make a lot of sense to me, too. Good nutrition with organic whole foods is what prevention of disease is really about...also exercise and a good night's sleep. The health care industry wants us to believe that having expensive medical tests is prevention, but they are mistaking diagnosis for prevention. Most people want to find good health in a pill, but there are no short cuts to good health.

Yes they do make sense, but he didn't list insurance reform at all. A lot of the practices insurance companies employ to reduce the cost for their individual companies raise health care costs for everybody else.

An he should have moved tort reform to the top of his list. With $50 billion worth of unnecessary tests ordered by providers to protect themselves from lawsuits there is still an estimated $125 billion in excessive jury awards which lead to astronomical increases in malpractice insurance premiums which leads to higher health care costs which leads to ...

We have to stop the madness!

http://splashinthepacific.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/lawyers-public-enemy-2-the-biggest-hidden-cost-in-health-care/

Finally, someone speaks with common sense.

This information is false. Yes, Whole Foods may have higher prices in some products, their produce is competitive with any other grocery store. I am a college student, and a single mother of a 7 year old. I am on food stamps while in school. Utilizing Whole Foods sales and seasonal produce, healthy eating is available to ANYONE! Our country is full of people that do not take personal responsibility for their actions. Although I am without healthcare at this time, I do not want what Obama is offering. My Whole Foods is accessible on the public bus line, as I am sure most Whole Foods are in many cities. We need to stop being victims.

Kathleen, you have food stamps, college and a child, probably have wic also. So it is ok to take from the government what YOU personally need. But you have a problem with others using the government to get what they need to survive(medical) You are a self identified welfare queen, and you do not see the irony and hypocrisy in your post. lol, you lose.

No, sorry to say. The reason big food chains do not come to poor and inner city neighborhoods is crime, shop lifting, and stolen food carts.