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you're right, it will never happen.

what's more likely to happen is that these workers who don't get health benefits will either go onto medicaid (as they do today), and we will pay as taxpayers. or once there is enough of them to elect Hillary, she will put national health care on all of us.

this is the price you are going to pay to save walmart a few dollars. a real good deal you are asking us to buy into.

what's more likely to happen is that these workers who don't get health benefits will either go onto medicaid (as they do today), and we will pay as taxpayers. or once there is enough of them to elect Hillary, she will put national health care on all of us.

Giving up already? Then go joint the DUmmies.

this is the price you are going to pay to save walmart a few dollars. a real good deal you are asking us to buy into.

Hey, dumbass, WAKE UP! Wal-Mart won't pay for this, you will.

This BS, unconstitutional, liberal-feelgood, anti-business legislation will not stop at Wal-Mart and I fully support Wal-Mart's tactics in fighting it. Not only will they protecting their own business interests, they will be protecting mine as well - VIVA, Wal-Mart!

p.s. If you don't like capitalism, just try doing without it.

private employers are dumping their plans everywhere you turn. those workers will increasingly be receptive to a government run plan - and Hillary 2008 will only be too happy to give them one in exchange for their vote

You are confusing cause and effect.

Once LBJ got government into the healthcare business with Medicaid this development was inevitable.

By making a product cheap (medical care) LBJ increased the effective demand for that product.

Since effective demand outstripped supply the price went up year after year.

Now what used to be a relatively minor corporate benefit has turned into a major cost of doing business. So of course employers are going to try to cut or eliminate that major cost.

I don't care if Maryland requires Walmart store managers to pray to Mecca at 11 AM every morning and donate 5% of proceeds to Hezbollah--but you need to understand that for each action by the legislature there will be a reaction in the marketplace.

(The reason I don't care is that I would love to see MD legislatures do something stupid like that so they could be driven from office like the scoundrels they are. :-) )