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To: Bill who wrote (42595)	12/5/2005 10:30:57 AM
From: fresc	Read Replies (1) of 90947

Right BILL! Wal-Mart’s health care coverage is well below the national average High premiums and deductibles keep more than half of Wal-Mart workers from participating in the company health plan. While the national average of workers covered by employer health insurance is 67 percent, only about 47 percent of Wal-Mart’s employees are covered by the company’s health care plan. Majority of Wal-Mart employees can’t afford company health care The average worker would have to pay one fifth of his paycheck for health care coverage at Wal-Mart. On a wage of about $8 an hour and 29-32 hours of work a week, many workers must rely on state programs or family members or simply live without health insurance. Employees must pay $218 per month for family health care coverage from Wal-Mart. In Wal-Mart's employee health plan, deductibles range from $350 to as high as $3,000 for family coverage. Wal-Mart’s refusal to provide affordable health care impacts taxpayers and other employers More than 60 percent of Wal-Mart employees--600,000 people--are forced to get health insurance coverage from the government or through spouses’ plans—or live without any health insurance. Wal-Mart shifts the cost of health insurance to taxpayers and other employers, driving up the health costs for all of us. Recent reports show that Wal-Mart tops the list of companies in many states whose employees and/or their children rely on taxpayers to foot the bill for health care: In Alabama, Wal-Mart employees with children on Medicaid cost the state between $5.8 million and $8.2 million to cover 3,864 children. Wal-Mart workers in California rely on the state taxpayers for about $32 million annually in health-related services. In Tennessee, almost 10,000 Wal-Mart employees are on the state’s expanded Medicaid program. In Georgia, over 10,261 children of Wal-Mart employees are enrolled in the state’s PeachCare program for health insurance in families meeting federal poverty criteria. When other companies get tired of paying the bill for Wal-Mart, they drop or reduce health care benefits for their employees. There are more than 40 million uninsured working families. The more Wal-Mart grows, so do the number of the uninsured.

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