>> 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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