red states rule
11-17-2007, 11:48 AM
Wal Mart is now offering their employees a new and improved health plan, and the liberal media attacks them for not offering more
I guess the left want Hillary to write the health plan and order Wal Mart to pay for it
The NY Times had their typical Wal mart bashing headline - so much for objective reporting
A Health Plan for Wal-Mart: Less Stinginess
By MICHAEL BARBARO and REED ABELSON
Published: November 13, 2007
For much of the last decade, the retailing behemoth Wal-Mart Stores has been associated with stingy health care as much as low prices.
Across the country, politicians and labor groups derided the company’s health plans for their high expense and bare-bones coverage. Two states, California and Maryland, even passed laws demanding, in effect, that the company spend more on employee health benefits.
“We want this giant to behave itself,” one Maryland legislator, Anne Healey, said at the time.
The giant, it turns out, was listening. All the criticism was hurting its reputation and its ability to expand. So now, after spending two years seeking advice from everyone from Bill Clinton to executives at Starbucks, Wal-Mart is overhauling its health plans.
The company, according to data available for the first time, is offering better coverage to a greater number of workers. Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest private employer, provides insurance to 100,000 more workers than it did just three years ago — and it is now easier for many to sign up for health care at Wal-Mart than at its rival, Target, whose reputation glows in comparison.
for the complete article
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/business/13walmart.html?ex=1352610000&en=d8d9f3ac0bbffb94&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
I guess the left want Hillary to write the health plan and order Wal Mart to pay for it
The NY Times had their typical Wal mart bashing headline - so much for objective reporting
A Health Plan for Wal-Mart: Less Stinginess
By MICHAEL BARBARO and REED ABELSON
Published: November 13, 2007
For much of the last decade, the retailing behemoth Wal-Mart Stores has been associated with stingy health care as much as low prices.
Across the country, politicians and labor groups derided the company’s health plans for their high expense and bare-bones coverage. Two states, California and Maryland, even passed laws demanding, in effect, that the company spend more on employee health benefits.
“We want this giant to behave itself,” one Maryland legislator, Anne Healey, said at the time.
The giant, it turns out, was listening. All the criticism was hurting its reputation and its ability to expand. So now, after spending two years seeking advice from everyone from Bill Clinton to executives at Starbucks, Wal-Mart is overhauling its health plans.
The company, according to data available for the first time, is offering better coverage to a greater number of workers. Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest private employer, provides insurance to 100,000 more workers than it did just three years ago — and it is now easier for many to sign up for health care at Wal-Mart than at its rival, Target, whose reputation glows in comparison.
for the complete article
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/business/13walmart.html?ex=1352610000&en=d8d9f3ac0bbffb94&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss