If the governor to expanding health plan through the Obamacare, there will be a huge a group of low wage workers vulnerable without medical insurance: who the people who work at wal-mart.
The world's largest retailer recently published a new policy, will eliminate medical insurance new hire employees work less than 30 hours a week, Hector FenDu post "reported this month. Wal-mart tried to transfer medical insurance plan for the poor, the burden of the government to provide health insurance - in particular, the experts describe the move.
, Obamacare includes a rapid expansion medicaid, one, will be potential health insurance spread to as many as 1 billion people, by 2016, according to the latest the congressional budget office estimates. This will achieve through the qualification to expand to include personal income of up to 133% of the federal poverty threshold limit - $14856 at present.
Obamacare behind the main task is to ensure that the low pay service job - don't usually include the health benefits of - will receive some form of medical insurance. But in this year a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court that all countries have the right to choose the withdrawal of medicaid expansion. In Texas, south Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma, Maine and south Dakota republican governor then signal can do this plan.
Many of these countries have two common characteristics: a large number of wal-mart work, and very strict standards, medical aid qualifications. In Texas, more than 150000 people in wal-mart work, according to the company - the largest number of any state - a family of three employment parents' income more than 26% of the federal poverty line, or $4963 a year, be regarded as does not conform to the medical aid. Unemployment parents must let less qualification - no more than 12%, in the poverty line. Unless they are prohibited, no child of adults not qualified in Texas regardless of their income.
Wal-mart's new policy comes into force in January, a lot of part-time workers who denies that the position of the company's health benefits will accord with medical aid a Obamacare expansion take effect in 2014. About half an hour of about 1 million in America's wal-mart employees income less than ten dollars an hour, the company had earlier disclosure.
But if the country is now threatened to give up medical aid expansion through these plans, many wal-mart employees - and other low wage, service positions - running through the crack slip and fall risk: they might work too few hours, accord with the interests of the company, but earn too much medical aid qualifications, according to the national standard strictly.
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In Texas medical subsidy expansion and wal-mart's new policy, combining no can prove to be extremely harmful, "the company's workers, Vivian he said, rice university in Houston health economics professor. "I hope that wal-mart Texas a big country, can consider to design a special function what happened happened medicaid policy."
Wal-mart has not made a public statement have a plan to adjust its health plan regulation, to give up the expansion of medical aid. The company declined to comment on the incident request, reason is policy not response problem Hector FenDu post.
Brittany, who works in the wal-mart in indiana, said clark, worry about her, she might fail the crack: indiana was elected governor of the campaign against Obamacare platform PanSi earlier this year, but he has not made clear about the expansion of the published medical aid.
Clark, who was hired a part-time basis, march said, her income of $7.65 an hour, don't know whether she will be assigned enough time, every week are eligible for the benefits of a wal-mart. She said, even if she is qualified, insurance and related cost seems to be insurmountable. "If I have qualification, I will not be able to afford, my rent, notes receivable and baby," she said, reason is she described as high deductibles.
Clark recently pregnant, prompted her to the medical aid for prenatal care, but she's not sure whether she will leave after qualification, her children came to.
"My baby was born, I am looking for a new job," clark said. He said: "I can not support more hours, I and my family and a $7.65 an hour rate."
And other major retailers often be excluded part-time workers from their health plan, wal-mart in recent years has tried to distinguish itself coverage relatively loose suppliers. In 2006, although in the face of the charge, it shortened workers, wal-mart expanded its advantage, make it easier for part-time staff qualifications, and at the same time also launched a health insurance plan, monthly premium is low.
Although there are critics fault in the wal-mart saddle with high deductibles, to prevent workers recruit employees, the company's health is better than many other countries to provide more comprehensive services industry chain.
In 2009, more than Obama the President of the national health care reform in the discussion of the location of the loft, it again, from other retailers to the fore: the company through the employer authorized legal requirements, the company staff to provide health insurance. This position will retail giants in the same side, such as the service employees international union and direct against the United States chamber of commerce, lobbying main business to preach system opponent.
At that time, chamber of commerce accused wal-mart support task means the pursuit of their own profit motives: adhere to the rival additional compliance costs.
A version of the employer authorized ObamaCare become an important component, by 2014, all employers must work A week at least 30 hours of providing health insurance, or pay A fine. Due to the wal-mart has covered more than 30 hours a week who work of the staff, the company will likely more than competition advantages, many of them now finds himself to the task of competitively Obamacare.




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