Tuesday, May 24, 2005

What's the Big Deal? It's Capitalism

I do not begrudge the workers at Wal-Mart their tax-supported health care. What I do begrudge is Wal-Mart's claim that they pay a living wage. Again, the tax payers support a private company, who refuses to do the right thing.


Here's a sampling of the article:

The biggest employer of BadgerCare recipients was Wal-Mart, which had 809 of its employees and 443 of employee dependents enrolled in the state program in April. Providing health care for those 1,252 people costs Wisconsin about $2.7 million a year; Wal-Mart turned a profit of $10.3 billion in 2004.


Nonetheless, state officials remain concerned that businesses struggling to cope with soaring health care costs are making it harder and more expensive for workers to sign up for health care coverage, prompting more low-income employees to seek public aid.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Great blog I hope we can work to build a better health care system as we are in a major crisis and health insurance is a major aspect to many.