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If anything I'll shop at Whole Foods more. A public option will continue to hide the costs of healthcare from the people who pay for it (in the form of lower s
by awt 17y ago
If anything I'll shop at Whole Foods more. A public option will continue to hide the costs of healthcare from the people who pay for it (in the form of lower salaries currently, and higher taxes if we get a public plan), and will not bring prices down.
- cwan 17y agoI'd be really curious to know what percentage of these boycotters ever really shopped at Whole Foods to begin with. That said, I wonder how passionately they believe in their cause, after all if they are such "single issue shoppers" they should be shopping at Walmart that is advocating the public option along with the SEIU (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/07/AR2007020700944.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02...).
- kiba 17y agoI believe wal-mart support such a plan in order to drive out their competitors. Wal-mart can bear the burden of the cost of healthcare while smaller employers can't. If there is a good reason to hate wal-mart, this is it.
- awt 17y agoI'm not surprised that Walmart would be advocating the public option, as with most major employers that depend on cheap labor, they'll do anything they can to avoid paying for healthcare.