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Wal-Mart to pay a special health tax in Maryland as a price for its social dumping
Iowa is the most recent U.S. State to reveal that Wal-Mart tops the list of companies who let taxpayers finance workers' health care. According to a report by the Iowa Department of Human Services, 845 Wal-Mart workers received benefits from the state's Medicaid programme.
These latest revelations of Wal-Mart's poor healthcare performance come as Iowa is facing a 170 million USD deficit for its Medicaid programme.
- ‘If Wal-Mart has full-time employees that are on Medicaid, that's outrageous,'' State Senator Joe Bolkcom (D-Iowa City) said to QC Times.
- This is a company making billions of dollars in profit a year with their low prices, but they also have a concurrent responsibility to not foist off the health care costs of their employees on Iowa taxpayers.'