Comments on: Why Is Wal-Mart Endorsing Employer Mandated Healthcare?

By: James

James — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:52:42 +0000

(Waving at Target) Hi Target! I’ll be shopping with you from now on!

By: Bubba_bigbox

Bubba_bigbox — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:33:38 +0000

Just becasue Walmart workers have health care doesn’t mean that Walmart is paying for it. In may cases, it is the employee that puts part of their paycheck into healthcare insurance each pay period.
Perhaps, and I dont’ know this for sure, but perhaps the choice to have coverage at Walmart is not voluntary, but is mandated by Walmart to its employees. You know, the old you must sign up for our health care program at X-dollars per pay. Maybe that is why their numbers look so good.

By: Gina-Marie Cheeseman

Gina-Marie Cheeseman — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:07:03 +0000

Sorry, I meant to say 30 percent. One thing about commentators, they catch EVERY error. Thanks for that because everyone needs an editor. I live in the Central San Joaquin Valley of California, btw.

By: Gina-Marie Cheeseman

Gina-Marie Cheeseman — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:05:39 +0000

Sorry, I meant to say 30 percent. One thing about commentators, they catch EVERY error. Thanks for that because everyone needs an editor. I live in the Central San Joaquin Valley of California, btw.

By: JanSimpson

JanSimpson — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:40:06 +0000

Walmart is supporting employer manadated healthcare insurance for predatory reasons – it will put their competitors out of business – And why doesn’t Walmart self insure and have all of their employees with healthcare insurance or better yet – offer it to their customers – Goldman Sachs AIG, JP Morgan Chase Walmart GE are the same -

By: Jen Boynton, Editor

Jen Boynton, Editor — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:27:17 +0000

Hey Griffin, thanks for the catch! We corrected the piece.

By: griffin

griffin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:30:50 +0000

Did anyone here actually READ the NYT article. It does NOT say that 53% of WMT employees are uninsured. Here’s what it says:
“With 1.4 million employees, Wal-Mart employs more people than any other private company in the United States. Slightly more than half of Wal-Mart’s employees, 53 percent, are insured by the company, although Mr. Dach said the company estimated that 94 percent of its workers had some form of insurance, either through spouses, parents or – in the case of 36,000 Wal-Mart employees – Medicaid, the government insurance plan for the poor,”
That is a VERY big difference, and a huge error by the author if this article.

By: raichle

raichle — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:40:32 +0000

Triple digit unemployment? That would mean more people unemployed than exist.

By: Gina-Marie Cheeseman

Gina-Marie Cheeseman — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:37:29 +0000

Mike O., I agree with you. I don’t like the idea of penalizing people for not buying insurance. People don’t buy it because they can’t afford it. Healthcare is a right and not a privilege. The whole system stinks. We need REAL healthcare reform.

By: Gina-Marie Cheeseman

Gina-Marie Cheeseman — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:34:27 +0000

Mike, you said:
“How much should be paid to people that stock shelves and handle the cash register? Shouldn’t these people have some ambition? Why aren’t you bashing their parents that brought up such slackers? Are you just a shill for the unions?”
Are you a snob? Are you aware of the unemployment rate? Where I live it is almost in the triple digits. People have to make a living. Money is money. Come to the real world.

By: Alec

Alec — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:07:13 +0000

Seeing as how the NFIB and Chamber of Commerce are the most anti-labor, anti-worker, anti-middle class organizations in America, I think Wal Mart may have a solid stance. I am sure it is self serving, but if NFIB and the Cahmber are against it, it must by default be good for the American family.

By: Television Spy

Television Spy — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:08:53 +0000

I still don’t get why they’re doing it.

By: Mike O.

Mike O. — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:57:10 +0000

This insurance bill, as envisioned in the Senate, needs to be met with resistance.
As of today, auto insurance is mandated in all but two states (Wisconsin and NH), and Wisconsin is looking to mandate it this year.
The Senate bill provides a $1000 “penalty” if you do not purchase health insurance of some kind, enforcable through the IRS.
This penalty preys on the young, think about it. Those least likely to need it are required to buy it, to subsidize the rest.
In either case (auto or health), you are being dictated to as to where you spend your earnings. It’s unconstitutional.

By: Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:33:56 +0000

Regardless of what Obama wants, or congress says, there is no Constitutional authority to do anything with health care. To argue about the details is to accept the false premise that the federal government has any business in it all.
We must stop debating policy when the premise is flawed to begin with.