Judge overturns Wal-Mart health care law

Yahoo ^ | Julky/19/2006 | Associated Press

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...The state law would have required non-governmental employers with 10,000 or more workers to spend at least 8 percent of payroll on health care or pay the difference in taxes. The measure was directly aimed at Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart, which has been under attack by critics who say that its inadequate health care plans are forcing some employees to rely on state-funded plans.

[screw boll]

Big win for Big Wall Mart

[cardinal4]

Was this in Maryland?

[TChris]

Big win for Big Wall Mart

Yeah, and a big defeat for neo-socialism.

[big'ol_freeper]

Yes, in Maryland.

[South40]

Yeah, and a big defeat for neo-socialism.

Exactly.

[a02001]

Was this in Maryland?

YES :-)

[Kenny Bunkport]

I hate to sound cruel and insensitive, but anyone working at WalMart and expecting to get all the perks typical of corporate America should consider working to improve themselves and getting a real job on a real career path.

[cardinal4]

California and Massachusetts cant hold a candle to Maryland's Marxist style socialism..

[Joe Bfstplk]

It is refreshing to have a ruling that makes sense.

[GOPJ]

Big win for Big Wall Mart

Yes, and a BIG WIN for the people who shop there... Way to go, Walmart.

[screw boll]

It is the other way around: because there is no pay, the workers are plying around like children in a garden...

[Mrs. Shawnlaw]

This wasn't being pushed by employees of walmart. It was being pushed by UNIONS because walmart is NON union, based in Arkansas, and pro American, all things socialist entities like unions hate.

Go Walmart! Go Target! Go Home Depot! (Big wins for them too!)

[JSteff]

Big win for all types of business and a slap down on left wing socialists. Time someone got the message that Hillary care is not the law.

[libbylu]

Walmart does provide insurance I am pretty sure for full time employees, they are or were self ensured. Last time i worked in medical billing, anyway. And like lots of places, WM is a good place to work for lots of different groups of people. Personally, i don't look down at WM employees. I might be the old lady greeting customers some day, just to get out a little bit and maybe a discount.

[Hendrix]

This whole thing is about Unions (who represent union retail businesses) trying to stop Walmart from kicking their butts in our free market system. Walmart is slowly but surely putting the unions out of business.

[Hendrix]

It is sort of ironic that a court of law overturned the statute enacted by the left. That is usually the left's tactic (use the courts to overturn any law they don't like). Of course, I think the judge in this case is correct.

[Mrs. Shawnlaw]

This ruling will hurt the Chicago council's stance against Walmart, Target and Home Depot.

[colorado tanker]

I don't think this is judicial activism. They intentionally passed a law meant to apply to only one business in the state about a subject that affects most businesses. Strikes me as a gross violation of equal protection.

[ClaireSolt]

We don't need city councils limiting our shopping choices. They need to go back to reducing second hand sewer gas and its impact on global warming.

[TChad]

Judge Frederick Motz is a former federal prosecutor appointed by Ronald Reagan. He is married to another judge, a Clinton appointee.

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