Looks like people employed by Wal-Mart must go back to Emergency Rooms if they are going to receive any Health Care. Reportedly Wal-Mart is cutting back on certain Health Insurance Coverage for new hires and increasing Premium contributions from its existing employees. Some if not all of its new hires will receive no contribution from Wal-Mart to Health Insurance Coverage. See Steven Greenhouse and Reed Abelson's report with the understated headline (some might call it misleading, note that headlines are not ordinarily supplied by the reporters who report the piece and are thus not their fault in that case), "Wal-Mart Cuts Some Health Care Benefits" p. B1, col. 2 (New York Times Nat'l ed., Friday, October 21, 2011).
Before Wal-Mart started contributing to Employees' Health Insurance Plans a couple of years ago, it was notorious how its Employees received Health Care, if at all, from the nation's increasingly crowded hospital emergency rooms. Looks like we are back to that same old story.
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