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It is the employer's obligation in all other industrialized nations. The US isn't good enough, I guess.
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.
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?
It is the employer's obligation in all other industrialized nations. The US isn't good enough, I guess.
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?
Please provide "credible" proof of how much of that is due to Obama - and not directly or indirectly related to Bush actions and policies. Bush continues to drive costs.
By Alice Hines
Walmart, the nations 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 companys 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 Walmarts 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 companys 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
By Alice Hines
Walmart, the nations 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 companys 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 Walmarts 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 companys 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
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.
Obama Teams Up With Mexican Government to Push Food Stamps
A stunning report from the Daily Caller reveals that the Obama administration has signed a deal with the Mexican government to promote the use of food stamps. The U.S. Department of Agriculture program would “promote the use of food stamps among Mexican Americans, Mexican nationals and migrant communities in America,” according to the report.
The Congressional Budget Office reports that food stamps are up 70% under the Democrat-run government. Food stamp use is already at all-time highs in a jobless recession that has seen 41 straight months of unemployment over 8%. Nearly one in five households use the program, while red ink for government spending already runs over $42,000 for each household per year.
The initiative recalls the USDA being recently caught by the Daily Caller running food stamp promotions on Spanish language soap operas. The USDA was later compelled to retract the ads
We were just discussing how Walmart and the other large corporations which employ 80% of the workers making minimum wage, are using food stamps, Medicaid, and other social programs to subsizdize their record breaking profits. The government keeps the minimum wage artificially low and these companies use the entitlement programs to offset their low wages.
Walmart is moving up the payment of their annual dividend to December this year so that the shareholders will avoid paying $180,000 million dollars on that dividend. The workers get food stamps, the shareholders get the money which should be paid as a living wage to their employees.
And the CEO makes more in an hour than their "associates" make in a year. That's just wrong.
We were just discussing how Walmart and the other large corporations which employ 80% of the workers making minimum wage, are using food stamps, Medicaid, and other social programs to subsizdize their record breaking profits. The government keeps the minimum wage artificially low and these companies use the entitlement programs to offset their low wages.
Walmart is moving up the payment of their annual dividend to December this year so that the shareholders will avoid paying $180,000 million dollars on that dividend. The workers get food stamps, the shareholders get the money which should be paid as a living wage to their employees.
And the CEO makes more in an hour than their "associates" make in a year. That's just wrong.
Costco is a great company. Walmart is shit.
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?
Please provide "credible" proof of how much of that is due to Obama - and not directly or indirectly related to Bush actions and policies. Bush continues to drive costs.
And you're saying you didn't see this coming? Sit back and watch how many employers drop health insurance thanks to Obamacare. It should come as no surprise.
WE TRIED to tell the Obamatrons ... Obama wants to put health insurance companies OUT of business!!
"The result ObamaCare which today McKinsey & Company commissioned a survey of 1,329 U.S. private sector employers to measure their attitudes about healthcare reform concluded that 30% of all companies would stop providing health coverage once Obamacare kicked in in 2014.
US employer healthcare survey | McKinsey & Company
And any of you idiots who think the "insurance exchanges" will replace this??? You know NOTHING about how health insurance works!
It was NEVER the insurance companies fault... they just passed the costs on by raising premiums!
Then Obama care does away with "pre-existing conditions" and NOW insurance actuaries are telling us they have to take that in account and therefore the actuaries that calculate the premiums are saying the following for private insurance not employer!
A nationwide study conducted by Milliman Inc. for the Society of Actuaries found that nationwide the premiums in the individual market would increase from 8 to 37 percent in 2014
with a cumulative increase of as much as 122 percent between 2013 and 2017!!!
Take the time like I did download from the Society of Actuaries SOA - Society of Actuaries - Design and Implementation Considerations of ACA Risk Mitigation Programs
Great point! And there is no better way to put health insurance companies out of business than by giving them more customers. It's brilliant!
We were just discussing how Walmart and the other large corporations which employ 80% of the workers making minimum wage, are using food stamps, Medicaid, and other social programs to subsizdize their record breaking profits. The government keeps the minimum wage artificially low and these companies use the entitlement programs to offset their low wages.
Walmart is moving up the payment of their annual dividend to December this year so that the shareholders will avoid paying $180,000 million dollars on that dividend. The workers get food stamps, the shareholders get the money which should be paid as a living wage to their employees.
And the CEO makes more in an hour than their "associates" make in a year. That's just wrong.
By Alice Hines
Walmart, the nations 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 companys 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 Walmarts 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 companys 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
Costco is a great company. Walmart is shit.
I love how you idiot liberal dumbocrat assholes create the problem, then cry like little bitches when the problem finally hits home
We told you fuck'n idiots this is exactly what would happen over two years ago, and all we heard was the "I have no argument, so I'll just cry TIN FOIL HAT" routine. Just like we're telling you now there will be death panels under Obama. I can't wait until that comes to fruition just like companies dropping their coverage for employees now that the government will do it for them.
By the way, I thought you guys said Obamacare would make sure more people were covered by health insurance? Every day, you're being proved WRONG (as usual) my millions more losing their coverage.
