In the past few days, we've seen a couple of stories about Walmart opening new health clinics. This is nothing new. We knew about a month ago that Walmart was relaunching their walk in clinics. But it's important that these clinics continues to open because Walmart is, as we've noted before, trying to rebrand itself when it comes to health care. They're trying to get their name out of the news for offering notoriously poor health insurance and get their name in the news for offering $4 prescriptions, walk in clinics and the like.
There's just one problem, Walmart still fails to cover more than 48%, or 675,000 of their employees. They insure far fewer employees than your average large business (which insures more than 65% of employees) and forces many thousands of employees to rely on public health insurance like Medicaid which you, the taxpayer, pay for.
Don't let Walmart get away with using flashy PR to short change their workers on health care.
Posted by Taylor - June 17, 2009 03:34 PM - In The News