Wal-Mart associates have seen their benefits improve with more insurance options and lower eligibility rates. This year, more disease and illness prevention options were introduced, including “Life with Baby,” a program which helps mothers and their babies get a healthy start. Full Story »
Posted by Joey Baker
No way to trust this story. Even though the author is the managing editor of a trade magazine -- we'd hope a disinterested authority on all things supermarket -- she provides no links and no independent verification of Wal-Mart's health care initiatives. It isn't the reader's job to look these things up. It appears to me that Ms. Veiders is singing Wal-Mart's praise, even if the information she offers is correct. Not informative, not in-depth, not well sourced, not contextualized.
This is a textbook example of bad journalism. This superficial report asserts that Wal-Mart is 'reform[ing] the nation's health care system' without any factual evidence to support that claim. It also unfairly praises the company's 'leadership role' and only cites a single source to back up this entire story: Wal-Mart itself!
Lots of numbers are thrown around, but sources may suspect since they come from the people being written about.
The economy of scale of Wal Mart is dwarfed by the economy of scale of the Federal goverment. Only by action of Pres Bush and company has the Fed been kept out of the drug buying business and thatg 2 billion saved could have been 10 or more
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