That's why they are taking away the insurance:
"Walmart again pares part-timers’ health coverage" by Anne D’Innocenzio | Associated Press October 08, 2014
NEW YORK — Walmart Stores Inc., the nation’s largest private employer, plans to eliminate health insurance coverage for some of its part-time US employees in a move aimed at controlling rising health care costs.
That's odd because my newspaper and government have been telling me costs have gone down under Obummercare.
Related: Wolverine Loose at Walmart
Yeah, they are not making nearly enough money.
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The announcement follows similar decisions by Target Corp., Home Depot Inc., and others to eliminate health insurance for part-timers.
Well, they both got hacked.
It also came a day after Walmart said it is teaming up with an online health insurance agency, DirectHealth.com, to help customers shop for health insurance plans.
F*** the employees, huh?
‘‘We had to make some tough decisions,’’ said Sally Welborn, Walmart’s senior vice president of benefits.
Poor corporations.
She said she did not know how much Walmart will save by dropping part-time employees’ benefits but added the company will use a third-party organization to help part-time workers find insurance alternatives.
Yeah, thanks for the help.
Walmart has said that far more US employees and their families were enrolling in its health care plans than it expected following the rollout of the federal Affordable Care Act, which requires big companies to offer coverage to employees working 30 hours or more a week or face a penalty. It also requires most Americans to have health insurance or pay a penalty.
What you likely do not know is because of the premium spikes Obama has decided to remove that trouble$ome issue for Democrats from the campaign trail by automatically reenrolling you. Just wait until you get the new premium payments and deductibles next year! Democrats thought they have it bad now.... wait until you can't get access to your own records while the hackers can!
Time to turn the radius to my own state and the health website Obummercare ruined that cost us.... they don't even know.... as costs are again going up (only nickel-and-diming you, though) and the place is still being cited as a model!
And, oh, yeah, death panels are back, ready or not. I mean, I'm fein with certain obituaries and now oppose the idea of government health care after seeing where the idea came from. Even if I was still for the idea, the last government I would trust to administer it is the government of AmeriKa. It's AmeriKan medi$ine now.
As for the long-term, it looks like you will have to fend for yourself.
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Walmart, like most other big companies, is also increasing insurance premiums and the out-of-pocket costs that employees pay, to counter rising costs. Walmart said it’s raising premiums for all of its full-time and part-time workers....
Save money, live better (not for employees).
Walmart employees and their dependents will pay slightly more out-of-pocket for their care next year because the retailer has lowered the percentage of the bill it will cover for doctor visits, tests, and other services to 75 percent from 80 percent after the deductible is paid.
They feel for you families, though.
The AmeriKan economy and former middle class in so much trouble lay-away needs to come back? I was told things were going well.
A Walmart spokesman, however, also noted that the company has not changed the maximum amounts that people will have to pay out-of-pocket annually.
Not yet.
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At least they want you to eat well:
"Walmart touts food initiative’s green benefits" by Stephanie Strom | New York Times October 07, 2014
Warning: this thing reads like a Walmart public relations handout. Feast at your own peril.
NEW YORK — Walmart announced an initiative Monday to reduce the environmental impact of the food it sells and help its customers improve the nutrition in their diets.
Wanna have an environmental impact? Bring back all the manufacturing plants so the products don't have to be transported overseas.
Hello?
The retailer is the nation’s largest grocer, and food is its biggest business.
Speaking of which, I have not seen a thing about Market Basket in I don't know how long. The resolution of that must not have met with approval from the Globe.
So it has enormous clout with food producers and big food-processing companies — influence that it can use, for example, to sway how much water is used to produce a crop, or shorten the distance a load of strawberries is shipped, thus reducing consumption of fossil fuels.
So now Walmart wants to CONTROL the WATER SUPPLY?
“What’s become clearer and clearer is that we have a real challenge globally around feeding the world’s growing population in a way that doesn’t cut down every last tree and use every last drop of water,” said Kathleen McLaughlin, senior vice president for global sustainability at Walmart.
Never mind the over-the-top hyperbolic premise coming from Walmart, what about the HUNGER ACROSS PLANET NOW?
Agriculture’s role in climate change was central to the UN Climate Summit in New York last month.
Related: Globe Embraces Occupy Wall Street
It's all China's fault anyway.
The severe drought in California has been a stark illustration of how much water is required to produce the fruit and vegetables that consumers increasingly demand, and there is growing awareness about how food waste and animal husbandry generate greenhouse gases.
Of neglected water infrastructure.
Walmart’s new effort to enhance sustainability has four legs: reducing the overall cost of food, including its environmental footprint; increasing access to more nutritious food; making it easier for its customers to eat healthier foods; and improving food safety, with greater transparency about where food comes from and how it is produced.
Sounds like a great meal, doesn't it?
The company has been working with a variety of partners, ranging from nonprofit groups like the Environmental Defense Fund and Feeding America to big food manufacturers like General Mills and PepsiCo, as well as agricultural businesses like Monsanto and Cargill.
Ah, the CORPORATE CO-OPTING of the CLIMATE CHANGE and OBESITY AGENDA!
You GOTTA LOVE IT!
So what does Walmart they have against ADM?
General Mills and Walmart, for example, are sponsoring a challenge that will reward farmers who show the most progress in reducing emissions through better management of fertilizer application.
Chemical fertilizers sold by who?
Related: Yogurt For Breakfast
You got all day to eat it.
To reduce food waste, Walmart has begun developing more ways to use a “whole crop” in its private label food production and placing an emphasis on more efficient ordering to reduce spoilage.
It also is working to make healthier foods more broadly accessible through lower prices and building stores in food deserts.
Market Basket is the model, so..... ???????
McLaughlin said Walmart would supply 4 billion more meals to needy people over the next five years with greater donations to food banks and by working with schools and other institutions to help them figure out what equipment they need to prepare and store more fresh foods.
I'm so glad we all have corporate kings to look out for our welfare, aren't you?
Through organizations like 4-H and the American Heart Association, the company will offer education on how to shop for fruits and vegetables and how to prepare them.
4-H is who?
A: The government that cares
It plans to track that program by counting the number of meals that consumers receiving such information prepare at home as well as whether fruit and vegetable consumption increases.
What, and hurt the health of the AmeriKan economy by not going out to eat?
“We want to democratize healthy eating,” McLaughlin said. “You shouldn’t have to pay more to eat something nutritious.”
Oh, look, Walmart is all about "democratization" now.
COME ON!!!!
Walmart will use technology to propel healthier, more sustainable eating.
I often wonder how farms and food made it all these years without technology. How did the human species survive for so long without it? Gardens?
How did we last so long without Walmarts?
For instance, it will ask suppliers to use a tool called Adapt-N that gives farmers information about soil, weather, temperature, and seeds to help make better decisions about farm inputs.
Which corporation makes that product?
And it is adding much more information to bar codes in its Sam’s Club stores that shoppers can download with their mobile devices.
That makes for healthier food, yeah.
“We want to reduce the confusion that’s out there about what consumers should be eating in terms of their own health and what they should be buying in terms of what’s good for the planet,” McLaughlin said.
That's odd, because that is the only thing left on my plate from this pile of NYT $hit. Confusion.
At least I know Walmart cares about the planet more than I do.
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You know what term I never saw mentioned?
"Monsanto posts larger-than-expected 4Q loss" AP October 09, 2014
ST. LOUIS — Agriculture business giant Monsanto Co. reported a wider-than-expected loss Wednesday for its fourth quarter on higher expenses, including a one-time legal settlement.
The earnings forecast for 2015 also fell short of analysts’ expectations as Monsanto said it expects ‘‘continued industry headwinds.’’
Monsanto has dominated the bioengineered-seed business for years and recently began developing products specifically for emerging markets in Argentina, Brazil and parts of Asia.
Except those "emerging markets" don't want the low-yield, tastes-like-crap GMOs.
For the quarter ended Aug. 31, Monsanto reported a loss of $156 million, or 31 cents per share, compared with a loss of $249 million, or 47 cents per share, in the same period last year.
The loss came despite higher sales of its two key business units, genetically engineered seeds and herbicide.
The results included a one-time payment to settle an environmental case.
Which was what, exactly, corporate piece-o-crap?
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I have to admit, that was a ta$ty de$ert.
Related: Hamburg For Breakfast
Guess what's for lunch?
Speaking of which....
UPDATE: Wal-Mart scales back US store growth
They can't even run their own business correctly and yet they are going to take care of us all?
