Comments on: Walmart and the Government: Same Page on Health Care?

By: JohnC

JohnC — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:52:29 +0000

Didn’t shop there before – will never now!

Funny how John Podesta looks like Heinrich Himler and in a new emerging fascist country.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:50:58 +0000

Wal-Mart has been leveraged into caving into the Obama line. The onerous odor of unions here stinks of a deal. The unions leave Wal-Mart alone (for a while)
and Wal-mart gets to shift it’s health insurance burden to the tax payers.

The world has gone to pot and the U.S. with it.

God help us !!

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:48:04 +0000

The world has gone to pot and the U.S. with it.

God help us !!

By: Dennis Turner

Dennis Turner — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:02:32 +0000

We have universal Health Care NOW! When have you seen uninsured accident victoms left lying on the side of the road after an accident? The current insurance rates and Hospital charges reflect the built in cost of this current coverge. We need to find a way to extract a portion of this cost from those who have this benefit (universal insurance). Hospitals typically treat patients and try to collect fees at a later date. The unpaid portion of this collecion effort is simply passed on to the the insured and those that pay their bills by what ever means they can. We treat the sick and infirm, we choose to bankrupt many that have no insurance or loose coverage but we still treat them. Lets find a way to continue to treat our populous while finding a method to charge everyone. A 1% national sales tax might be a good start.

Some may retire early if they had Health and Accident insurance; this would open up jobs at a per unit cost substantially less than the JOBS that the Obama Administration has created (by their own count). I was laid off and chose to retire early. To withdraw funds from an IRA to purchase Health Care you have to pay taxes on a portion of that income while those that have insurance as a benefit receive it tax free. At a minimum the tax law should be modified to drop income taxes on income used to purchase Health Care Insurance.

Congress cannot see the whole picture due to the blindness created by the insurance lobby etc.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:27:14 +0000

I guess if Wal-Mart is leaving the reservation then, I will have to stay true to my convictions and shop somewhere else.

By: jim crawford

jim crawford — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:41:13 +0000

wal mart just lost my busness

jim crawford

By: S Mays

S Mays — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:43:54 +0000

I have to laugh when listening to this woman. Alexis I don’t know what you are but you are definitely not a journalist. Try an unbiased approach like um.. you know… a real professional.

Either way I tried to hear the argument but when she used the advice of Dick Morris, I knew I was listening to a complete fool.

For the other two, the woman just sound like a robot spitting out GOP talking points. However, the guy may the only legitimate point. If they did illegally try to derail Obama’s campaign and charges were filed then this would make sense.

By: Cliff

Cliff — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:05:29 +0000

Another typical WalMart move to try & manupilate the press and markets in their favor. The ONLY thing WalMart is looking out for is their bottom line. They will align themselves with anyone or anything that will generate market share and profits no matter how achieved or what it takes.

By: BigDog

BigDog — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:49:35 +0000

Wal-Mart is just trying to shift health care costs to someone else to increase the bottom line. They also think that when “public” health care comes about and everyone’s taxes go up to support it the only place left with prices low enough to shop with your reduced income will be Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart has no social conscience at all, they will support whatever increases profits or market share. They buy 90% from China which will NOT be affected by “Crap and Fade” energy taxes either.