Texas Law give employers the power to find out who is expensive to insure and fire them

Walmart Public Relation Blitz or Smoke and Mirrors on Healt care Coverage

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The plans with the lowest premiums would still charge annual deductibles as high as $2,000 — typical for American corporate health plans, but perhaps steep for Wal-Mart employees, many of whom work part time and earn less than $20,000 a year. And the company’s plans have other limitations, including waiting periods as long as a year for new employees.

Wal-Mart Watch, a group long critical of the company, said yesterday that “these plans are still unaffordable due to low wages or inaccessible due to waiting periods.”

It is unclear how many of the 125,000 Wal-Mart workers without health coverage would sign up. But industry analysts said the program represented an upgrade for the 636,000 employees who already receive health insurance through Wal-Mart. They said it could force the company’s discount-retailing competitors to offer more generous plans for their own workers.

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When will Americans get what every other industrialized nation in the world already gets?

Must Be the same bunch of drolling idiots who were confident in Bush national security plans

Voters Confident in Clinton's Decisions On Health Care

On the heels of Hillary Clinton's health care plan rollout, a new CBS News poll confirms the former first lady's advantage on what has become a top issue for the 2008 presidential campaign.

Among Democratic voters, Clinton has a wide lead on the issue. Seven in 10 say they would be confident in her decisions on health policy, while just 41 percent say the same of Edwards and 38 percent the same of Obama. Half say she would do a better job handling health care than any of her rivals.

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