Wal-Mart Tops List of Employees on Alabama Medicaid
February 23, 2005
Wal-Mart tops the list of companies in Alabama whose employees have children on Medicaid, costing the state between $5.8 million and $8.2 million to cover 3,864 children.
Wal-Mart’s health care coverage is much too expensive for most workers to afford, and employees are forced to rely on government programs. Alabama is just the latest state revealing how much the public pays for Wal-Mart’s refusal to provide affordable health care.
Wal-Mart workers in California rely on the state taxpayers for about $32 million annually in health-related services. In Tennessee, almost 10,000 Wal-Mart employees are on the state’s expanded Medicaid program.
In Georgia, over 10,261 children of Wal-Mart employees are enrolled in the state’s PeachCare program for health insurance in families meeting federal poverty criteria. The state legislature is considering a proposal that would create an annual report card listing employers that have workers or their children covered by public health care programs.
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