MoveOn.org is going after Wal-Mart

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Originally Posted by Peaches

Employer provided healthcare is a BENEFIT, not a RIGHT. More and more companies are dropping that benefit and many others are making those with families pay for the family's coverage, others are raising rates for smokers, etc.

There are catastropic policies out there for less than $100 a month. If you're working part time at Walmart and don't qualify for their health insurance, get another part time job that pays a couple of hundred a month and get your own health insurance.

Thank you for letting me know that healthcare is a benefit, not a right.

I'm not sure why you did so, however - I did finish 8th grade, and don't recall asserting that healthcare was a right.

Since, as I said, I did finish 8th grade and do occasionally read a newspaper or other periodical, I am also aware of the fact that more and more companies are decreasing or eliminating healthcare benefits.

I see nothing in the study that Selena referenced to suggest that the majority of those workers ARE part time. I don't doubt that some of them are, btw - I can see no reason to do so unless it fits a preexisting prejudice. I just don't know how many, and see no reason to assume that they make up the majority.

Your assumption that catastrophic coverage would benefit these sorts of workers in any tangible way shows how little you know. The costs of a routine exam or normal illness are often budget-breakers for them.

Sad but true, honey - like it or not, you're going to pay for their healthcare. It can be in increased costs at Walmart, or it can be increased taxes and/or insurance, or it can be in increased costs from your doctor, drugstore and hospital.