On a day that Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott got a $4.28 million dollar bonus, Wal-Mart called a conference call to discuss a survey it conducted on its healthcare plan. On the call, it was announced that Scott has the same healthcare plan as a part-time Wal-Mart cashier.

It’s no surprise Lee Scott is on the Wal-Mart health care plan - it’s a plan only a well-compensated CEO could love. With a new five million dollar bonus, Lee Scott doesn’t have to worry about the high deductibles or premiums that come along with so many of the retail giant’s healthcare plans, but average workers do. The fact is nearly twenty percent of Wal-Mart workers have no coverage at all, or rely on state funded programs for their care. That means taxpayers across the country continue to pay too high a price for Wal-Mart’s refusal to put forth a plan all of its workers can afford.

Ed Harris
Ohio broker 27 years
Pretty decent tennis player too…
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Now there is something to open your eyes to what Wal-Mart is really about…

“The memo proposes to save Wal-Mart one billion dollars by hiring more part-time workers and discouraging unhealthy people from seeking jobs. It also proposes that employees pay more for their spouses’ health insurance, cutting the company’s 401(k) contributions to 3 percent of wages from 4 percent and cutting company-paid life insurance policies.”

And, given “sky-rocketing health care costs” and sky-rocketing everything costs, I think what they did was not much at all. They could afford to do much, much better and everyone knows it. Those of us who are not real thrilled with Wal-Mart will have to see a lot more on their part before we will be shopping there.