A high-price to pay for a cheap waffle-maker.

AuthorPeters, Charles
PositionTilting at Windmills - Wal-Mart health insurance policies - Brief Article

Parents enroll their children in the government's Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) because their own employers do not provide their families with adequate health coverage. The Charleston Gazette recently revealed that the West Virginia company with the most employees filing for CHIP coverage is Wal-Mart. It beats the next highest employer by three to one. In Georgia, the situation is worse. Wal-Mart children constitute 14 times the number of the state's next highest employer's applicants for CHIP, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Wal-Mart does offer a health insurance plan for its...

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