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Monday, February 27, 2006

Wal-Mart Appeals to Governors on Health Benefits


“With Wal-Mart Stores under mounting pressure to spend more on employee health insurance, the company's chief executive on Sunday urged the nation's governors not to pass legislation that would burden the giant retailer, and pledged to work with the governors to move workers off state Medicaid rolls.” (New York Times, Monday)

Is it business's responsibility to keep employees from using a government program that shouldn't have been created in the first place?

FEE Timely Classic
“Guess Who Paved the Road to Socialized Medicine” by Sue A. Blevins