Affordable healthcare is fascism It didn’t take long for Whole Foods CEO John Mackey to admit that it probably was a “poor choice of words” to say Obamacare was “more like fascism” during a recent interview. (Apparently, the intense slam of negative media coverage gave him foot-in-mouth syndrome.) But this CEO’s attempt to explain his phrasing and opposition to healthcare reform just might have dug himand Whole Foods’ reputationinto a deeper hole.
Rather than recant his statement during a follow-up damage-control interview, Mackey reiterated that Obamacare and healthcare reform are the cause of his company’s increasing business costs, which he insinuated would be passed down to employees.
When asked how he thought Obamacare would affect his business in the next few years, Mackey replied:
