PolicyGuy

Tuesday, May 24, 2005


Health care: General Motors, or Whole Foods?
David Gratzer points to two very different corporate models for health care coverage. General Motors is sinking on the weight of its "welfare state" plan that requires very little financial involvement of employees.

Whole Foods, on the other hand, has "health plan based on health savings accounts and spends about half of the national average for employee health care."

Sounds like the two companies would make for a fascinating case study in health care financing.

I met the CEO of Whole Foods--forget his name--at a conference a while ago. As I recall, he reports rather good success in using consumer-directed plans for his growing business.

"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

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