the Whole Foods health care plan

No, it's not buy all your food from Whole Foods and you won't get sick. ... Or maybe it is..

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While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system. Instead, we should be trying to achieve reforms by moving in the opposite direction—toward less government control and more individual empowerment. Here are eight reforms that would greatly lower the cost of health care for everyone:

-- John Mackey co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market Inc