Whole Foods is well-known for it's commitment to employee wellness and is used as an example for other companies to emulate. It's been chosen as one of the best 100 companies to work for in the U.S.

I'm not sure that all the ideas listed by their CEO can be credited only to the private sector, and maybe at least one of his proposals is a bit self-serving for his own company and employees (who have a very young average age). But those differences are not worth debating here. Overall, they are great ideas. It's been proven that an active wellness program can reduce the healthcare costs of groups of people enrolled in them. A lot of the conversation regarding HR 3200 is about shifting the paradigm to preventive medicine, including such wellness programs.

One major weakness that I see in the Whole Foods proposals is how businesses smaller than Whole Foods can institute similar wellness programs without some financial assistance. Whole Foods employs almost 42,000 employees in almost 300 stores and other facilities in the U.S. and U.K. They have the scale to implement a wellness program. Many smaller companies do not. In that the majority of employers in the U.S. fall into the "small business" category, how do they implement a program like this without some financial assistance. Maybe from the government? If not the government, who?