Saw This Coming - Sooner or Later - Wal-Mart Cuts Health Benefits to Part-Time Employees

By Rob Janicki

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to eliminate health insurance coverage for most of its part-time U.S. employees in a move aimed at controlling rising health care costs of the nation's largest private employer.

Starting Jan. 1, Wal-Mart told The Associated Press that it will no longer offer health insurance to employees who work less than an average of 30 hours a week. The move, which would affect 30,000 employees, follows similar decisions by Target, Home Depot and others to eliminate health insurance benefits for part-time employees.

Most of these Wal-Mart employees will undoubtedly have to go to state Medicaid health insurance plans, since even Obamacare health insurance plans will be much more expensive than the majority of these workers can afford.  

Wal-Mart's decision is simply symptomatic of an American economy under Obama, which is destined, and well on its way, to become a part time workforce of service sector employees flipping burgers and other similar low paying jobs.  Here's what these part time employees have to look forward to for healthcare.

Medicaid (MediCal in California) follows the old adage, "You get what you pay for."  Since Medicaid recipients pay very little to nothing for Medicaid, they can expect to receive the same level of value in medical services provided and paid for by Medicaid.

The adverse results of Obamacare are only now beginning to be felt by Americans.  More and more Americans are being driven to poorer health insurance plans or systems that either provide poorer medical options or charge much higher premiums.  What America is being pushed to is a health insurance and medical service delivery system framework based upon the Medicaid model, which has already proven to be a model for lowering the quality of health care delivered to Americans.

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