[Eric in the Ozarks]

Would Wal Mart health care workers get health care ?

[Revelation 911]

That would be cool if they could drive the cost of a health care plan down by selling plans, the profits of which could subsidize their own employees health care benefits

Just an idea

Im frankly tired of being dictated to and would relish the chance to have a HMO actually compete for my business, if walmart did in fact ever choose to sell plans

[Racehorse]

Would Wal Mart health care workers get health care ?

Probably not. 

To further insure associated labor costs are minimal, most likely Wal Mart will import the doctors and med techs from China and India.  The nurses they will probably bring in from the Philippines.

[P-Marlowe]

Would Wal Mart health care workers get health care ?

Wal Mart offers excellent health care (better than my plan) for all their full time employees. What the State of Maryland apparently wants to do is to force Wal Mart to provide health care to all their part time employees as well. Just about any employee who wants to work full time (and is willing to work) can land a full time job. Most part timers are part timers by choice.

Wal Mart's biggest sin appears to be that they provide their customers with what they want at the price they want to pay fo it. It is amazing how many so-called conservatives on this site are willing to authorize a soviet style government intrusion into private enterprise when the private enterprise is "too big for its britches."

I am much more afraid of that kind of attitude than I am of Wal Mart's growth plans. If Maryland can dictate to Wal Mart about how much they pay and who to give health insurance to, they can dictate to Mom and Pop. And Mom and Pop don't have the lawyers to stop them.

Anyone who favors the state of Maryland over Wal Mart on this issue is, IMO, a closet communist.