Walmart's New Health Care Policy Shifts Burden To Medicaid, Obamacare

[Dick Tuck]

Or Walmart could just lay off workers like thousands of other companies across the states. Isn't this what the liberals want? Now the Dems can raise taxes on the wealthy and make them pay for everyone's health care.

Why lay them off when they figured a way to have the American taxpayer subsidize their benefit package?

 

[Political Junky]

Costco and Trader Joe's are great places to shop and they take care of their employees very well. I never shop Walmart.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

No, Windbag, you're stupid for your "selective" outrage. Walmart was milking Uncle Sam long before Obamacare.

WTF?

I oppose all corporate welfare.

 

[Political Junky]

No, Windbag, you're stupid for your "selective" outrage. Walmart was milking Uncle Sam long before Obamacare.

WTF?

I oppose all corporate welfare.

Walmart instructs their employees on how to apply for food stamps.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

No, Windbag, you're stupid for your "selective" outrage. Walmart was milking Uncle Sam long before Obamacare.

WTF?

I oppose all corporate welfare.

Walmart instructs their employees on how to apply for food stamps.

So does Disney, what's your point?

 

[Lakhota]

WTF?

I oppose all corporate welfare.

Walmart instructs their employees on how to apply for food stamps.

So does Disney, what's your point?

I didn't know that. Got any "credible" proof...?

 

[Vel]

By Alice Hines

Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, plans to begin denying health insurance to newly hired employees who work fewer than 30 hours a week, according to a copy of the company’s policy obtained by The Huffington Post.

Under the policy, slated to take effect in January, Walmart also reserves the right to eliminate health care coverage for certain workers if their average workweek dips below 30 hours -- something that happens with regularity and at the direction of company managers.

Walmart declined to disclose how many of its roughly 1.4 million U.S. workers are vulnerable to losing medical insurance under its new policy. In an emailed statement, company spokesman David Tovar said Walmart had “made a business decision” not to respond to questions from The Huffington Post and accused the publication of unfair coverage.

Labor and health care experts portrayed Walmart’s decision to exclude workers from its medical plans as an attempt to limit costs while taking advantage of the national health care reform known as Obamacare. Among the key features of Obamacare is an expansion of Medicaid, the taxpayer-financed health insurance program for poor people. Many of the Walmart workers who might be dropped from the company’s health care plans earn so little that they would qualify for the expanded Medicaid program, these experts said.

“Walmart is effectively shifting the costs of paying for its employees onto the federal government with this new plan, which is one of the problems with the way the law is structured,” said Ken Jacobs, chairman of the Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley.

More: Walmart's New Health Care Policy Shifts Burden To Medicaid, Obamacare

It was NEVER Walmart's responsibility to provide insurance for those that worked there. They did that as an added incentive to get and retain better workers. The government has now made offering that perk way too expensive.

I know it's a novel concept but insurance is a perk..not a responsibility of your employer. Employers don't pay your rent for you, or make your car payment. They don't buy your groceries and pay your light bill. Walmart didn't owe anyone anything more than they agreed to when they were hired.

 

[Rozman]

You guys won your election....
Congratulations...this is what you get.

 

[Political Junky]

By Alice Hines

Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, plans to begin denying health insurance to newly hired employees who work fewer than 30 hours a week, according to a copy of the company’s policy obtained by The Huffington Post.

Under the policy, slated to take effect in January, Walmart also reserves the right to eliminate health care coverage for certain workers if their average workweek dips below 30 hours -- something that happens with regularity and at the direction of company managers.

Walmart declined to disclose how many of its roughly 1.4 million U.S. workers are vulnerable to losing medical insurance under its new policy. In an emailed statement, company spokesman David Tovar said Walmart had “made a business decision” not to respond to questions from The Huffington Post and accused the publication of unfair coverage.

Labor and health care experts portrayed Walmart’s decision to exclude workers from its medical plans as an attempt to limit costs while taking advantage of the national health care reform known as Obamacare. Among the key features of Obamacare is an expansion of Medicaid, the taxpayer-financed health insurance program for poor people. Many of the Walmart workers who might be dropped from the company’s health care plans earn so little that they would qualify for the expanded Medicaid program, these experts said.

“Walmart is effectively shifting the costs of paying for its employees onto the federal government with this new plan, which is one of the problems with the way the law is structured,” said Ken Jacobs, chairman of the Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley.

More: Walmart's New Health Care Policy Shifts Burden To Medicaid, Obamacare

It was NEVER Walmart's responsibility to provide insurance for those that worked there. They did that as an added incentive to get and retain better workers. The government has now made offering that perk way too expensive.

I know it's a novel concept but insurance is a perk..not a responsibility of your employer. Employers don't pay your rent for you, or make your car payment. They don't buy your groceries and pay your light bill. Walmart didn't owe anyone anything more than they agreed to when they were hired.

It is the employer's obligation in all other industrialized nations. The US isn't good enough, I guess.

 

[McDowell's]

This brings to mind that saying about insanity and makes one wonder if Lakhota will be demanding more government intervention tommorrow.




Ok, the latter is untrue; we all know he's insane.

 

[Lakhota]

Six Walmart heirs are collectively worth over $100 billion. How much is enough?

 

[McDowell's]

Six Walmart heirs are collectively worth over $100 billion. How much is enough?

I assume you think that is more than enough, so why do you keep demanding the goverment susidize them?

 

[Vel]

More: Walmart's New Health Care Policy Shifts Burden To Medicaid, Obamacare

It was NEVER Walmart's responsibility to provide insurance for those that worked there. They did that as an added incentive to get and retain better workers. The government has now made offering that perk way too expensive.

I know it's a novel concept but insurance is a perk..not a responsibility of your employer. Employers don't pay your rent for you, or make your car payment. They don't buy your groceries and pay your light bill. Walmart didn't owe anyone anything more than they agreed to when they were hired.

It is the employer's obligation in all other industrialized nations. The US isn't good enough, I guess.

Why should it be? And if you think that providing insurance is somehow the employers job, then why shouldn't the employer have to buy your groceries for you or provide a car or a house for you? What is the difference?

 

[McDowell's]

It was NEVER Walmart's responsibility to provide insurance for those that worked there. They did that as an added incentive to get and retain better workers. The government has now made offering that perk way too expensive.

I know it's a novel concept but insurance is a perk..not a responsibility of your employer. Employers don't pay your rent for you, or make your car payment. They don't buy your groceries and pay your light bill. Walmart didn't owe anyone anything more than they agreed to when they were hired.

It is the employer's obligation in all other industrialized nations. The US isn't good enough, I guess.

Why should it be? And if you think that providing insurance is somehow the employers job, then why shouldn't the employer have to buy your groceries for you or provide a car or a house for you? What is the difference?

Stfu, Mom! Everyone else is doing it!!

 

[squeeze berry]

By Alice Hines

Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, plans to begin denying health insurance to newly hired employees who work fewer than 30 hours a week, according to a copy of the company’s policy obtained by The Huffington Post.

Under the policy, slated to take effect in January, Walmart also reserves the right to eliminate health care coverage for certain workers if their average workweek dips below 30 hours -- something that happens with regularity and at the direction of company managers.

Walmart declined to disclose how many of its roughly 1.4 million U.S. workers are vulnerable to losing medical insurance under its new policy. In an emailed statement, company spokesman David Tovar said Walmart had “made a business decision” not to respond to questions from The Huffington Post and accused the publication of unfair coverage.

Labor and health care experts portrayed Walmart’s decision to exclude workers from its medical plans as an attempt to limit costs while taking advantage of the national health care reform known as Obamacare. Among the key features of Obamacare is an expansion of Medicaid, the taxpayer-financed health insurance program for poor people. Many of the Walmart workers who might be dropped from the company’s health care plans earn so little that they would qualify for the expanded Medicaid program, these experts said.

“Walmart is effectively shifting the costs of paying for its employees onto the federal government with this new plan, which is one of the problems with the way the law is structured,” said Ken Jacobs, chairman of the Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley.

More: Walmart's New Health Care Policy Shifts Burden To Medicaid, Obamacare

wtf did you expect asshole?

 

[Lakhota]

Walmart Pads Their Payroll With Your Tax Dollars: Call On Congress To Stop Them - The Winning Words Project

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Walmart instructs their employees on how to apply for food stamps.

So does Disney, what's your point?

I didn't know that. Got any "credible" proof...?

Just as credible as your proof that WalMart does it. The simple fact of life is that all large corporations have human resource departments that exist to help employees, and part of that means making sure that people that work for them and qualify for assistance know how to get it. This makes it more likely the employees will show up for work, and alleviates the need for them to lie about why they need time off during working hours. Simple common sense, if you think like a business major.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Six Walmart heirs are collectively worth over $100 billion. How much is enough?

The government spent over $1 trillion more last year than it earned, and Obama wants to spend even more next year. How much is enough?

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Six Walmart heirs are collectively worth over $100 billion. How much is enough?

I assume you think that is more than enough, so why do you keep demanding the goverment susidize them?

Don't confuse the idiot.

 

[bripat9643]

Six Walmart heirs are collectively worth over $100 billion. How much is enough?

The government or a bunch of Obama fluffers don't get the authority to decide what "enough" is for anyone. That's for them to determine based on how far their talent and ambition will take them.

You can go fuck off.