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Wal-Mart Watch Statement Regarding Wal-Mart’s 2009 Health Care Enrollment Numbers
For Immediate Release
Friday, February 13, 2009
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In response to the release of Wal-Mart’s 2009 health care enrollment numbers, Wal-Mart Watch spokesman David Nassar released the following statement:
“Wal-Mart’s 2009 health care enrollment data demonstrates the company’s continuing failure to provide affordable access to quality health care for its 1.4 million U.S. employees and the overwhelming need for Congress to pass the Employee Free Choice Act.
“The facts show that nearly half of all Wal-Mart employees still reject the plan, and that the number of workers on other plans has increased more than the number on Wal-Mart’s plan.
“All this shows is that Wal-Mart has done a good job of implementing the Chambers memo by hiring workers who have access to other forms of health care through family, veterans benefits or government-funded programs.
“The fact remains that a quality health care plan from Wal-Mart is simply far too expensive for hundreds of thousands of Wal-Mart workers who make poverty-level wages. Wal-Mart’s choice network family plan has a $700 annual deductible and a $322 bi-weekly premium. If a family maxes out its $4000 out-of-pocket medical expenses, the plan could cost over $12,000 a year. For the average full-time Wal-Mart employee making approximately $20,000 a year, this isn’t feasible.
“It is clear that Wal-Mart and the Walton Family will not make a substantial change to their health plan voluntarily. The Employee Free Choice Act would be a fundamental change that would give Wal-Mart employees the option of union representation and a collective bargaining voice they could use to achieve the health care they deserve.”
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To see Wal-Mart Watch’s most recent fact sheet on Wal-Mart’s health care plan, click here.
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