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28th January 2010

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MackeyCare Begins

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

  1. don’t smoke
  2. have low blood pressure below 110/70
  3. have low cholesterol below 150, and
  4. 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.

  1. nirak reblogged this from littletinyfish and added:
    Yup to all that.
  2. complex reblogged this from dihard
  3. chitlins reblogged this from muppetpants and added:
    BMI is a really shitty way to calculate health, so I dismissed all of what Mackey said after I saw that.
  4. catbus reblogged this from muppetpants and added:
    I don’t have time to flesh out a serious argument about this at the moment but I do think this is a discriminatory...
  5. littletinyfish reblogged this from dihard and added:
    I have all of those, but I find it curious that they’re stigmatizing fat people...being...
  6. missingmuse reblogged this from dihard and added:
    most retarded thing anyone could do. I’m 5’ 6”...weigh 155 pounds, at my max I was 185....
  7. muppetpants reblogged this from dihard and added:
    I’m letting this through...politics boycott because I’m going
  8. dihard posted this