Nice Things and Chitlins - MackeyCare Begins

28th January 2010

Post reblogged from MUPPETPANTS: Too Cool for the 99% with 32 notes

MackeyCare Begins

dihard:

Remember MackeyCare, Whole Foods CEO John Mackey’s steps to improve healthcare, which he outlined in a WSJ op ed last summer? Well now it’s taking shape, as the company introduces a new approach to encourage its 51,000 employees to lead healthy lifestyles.

Whole Foods will offer up to a 10% discount (on top of the 20% discount employees are already given at the market) to employees who

don’t smoke

have low blood pressure below 110/70

have low cholesterol below 150, and

have a BMI less than 24

It’s a voluntary program, and those who sign on receive free health screenings.

I quite like the idea. Apparently, so does Safeway, Kellogg, Dell, J&J, who all do something pretty similar. But not everyone does, as demonstrated by the outlash from groups like NAAFA who call the program discriminatory and urge a boycott of the stores.

I’m letting this through the politics boycott because I’m going to consider it non-governmental economics until the Democrats socialize the shit out of it.

BMI is a really shitty way to calculate health, so I dismissed all of what Mackey said after I saw that.

Source: dihard