>> Who would have guessed that a well-staffed store filled with
>> competent and reasonably paid employees might actually have an
>> impact on the success of a company?
>> Home Depot - that's who.

 EC> In case anyone missed the news about Home Depot: "Other
 EC> retailers, such as Trader Joe's and Home Depot have said
 EC> they will no longer provide medical coverage for part-time
 EC> employees, and will shift them instead to the public
 EC> healthcare exchanges

 And on the exchanges they can still subsidize the insurance. So,
 if they did not want to have their workers insured they would
 not have insured them in the first place.

 In looking that up I found three companies focused on,
 Walgreens, Trader Joe's and Home Depot. All three had very poor
 coverage for those part time workers. Overall they will get
 better coverage on the exchanges than they had, the companies
 will still be subsidizing their coverage, the employees were
 paying the rest themselves before, and the cost will be around
 the same or less.

 The relatively few who will be paying more live in republican
 controlled states that have chosen not to expand medicaid, and
 even don't have state fun exchanges. IOW, they would be eligible
 for medicaid, but won't be because the republicans chose it to
 be so.

 If you read up on it at all, you already knew this, which means
 you chose to be deceptive. If you didn't, you chose willful
 ignorance.



BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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