MattShizzle
21st October 2011, 22:52
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/business/wal-mart-cuts-some-health-care-benefits.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all%3Fsrc%3Dtp&smid=fb-share
After trying to mollify its critics in recent years by offering better health care benefits to its employees, Wal-Mart (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/wal_mart_stores_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org) is substantially rolling back coverage for part-time workers and significantly raising premiums for many full-time staff.
A spokesman for Wal-Mart said the company had to revamp its health care offerings for workers because of rising costs.
Citing rising costs, Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest private employer, told its employees this week that all future part-time employees who work less than 24 hours a week on average will no longer qualify for any of the company’s health insurance (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/health_insurance_and_managed_care/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) plans.
In addition, any new employees who average 24 hours to 33 hours a week will no longer be able to include a spouse as part of their health care plan, although children can still be covered.
This is a big shift from just a few years ago when Wal-Mart expanded coverage for employees and their families after facing criticism because so many of its 1.4 million workers could not afford or did not qualify for coverage — rendering many of them eligible for Medicaid (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/medicaid/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier).
Fucking assholes. They already pay next to nothing and bust unions. Next time some reactionary douche says people without health care should "stop being lazy get a job" in response to people saying how bad the US health care system is, I want to punch them in the throat.
After trying to mollify its critics in recent years by offering better health care benefits to its employees, Wal-Mart (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/wal_mart_stores_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org) is substantially rolling back coverage for part-time workers and significantly raising premiums for many full-time staff.
A spokesman for Wal-Mart said the company had to revamp its health care offerings for workers because of rising costs.
Citing rising costs, Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest private employer, told its employees this week that all future part-time employees who work less than 24 hours a week on average will no longer qualify for any of the company’s health insurance (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/health_insurance_and_managed_care/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) plans.
In addition, any new employees who average 24 hours to 33 hours a week will no longer be able to include a spouse as part of their health care plan, although children can still be covered.
This is a big shift from just a few years ago when Wal-Mart expanded coverage for employees and their families after facing criticism because so many of its 1.4 million workers could not afford or did not qualify for coverage — rendering many of them eligible for Medicaid (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/medicaid/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier).
Fucking assholes. They already pay next to nothing and bust unions. Next time some reactionary douche says people without health care should "stop being lazy get a job" in response to people saying how bad the US health care system is, I want to punch them in the throat.