alexandraerin:

theuppitynegras:

evolutia:

oneluv918:

Walmart, the world’s largest retailer and America’s largest employer has announced that they will stop offering health insurance to new hires. Walmart is blaming the Affordable Care Act (AKA Obamacare) for the decision to deny healthcare to their newest employees. Walmart currently employs more than 1.4 million workers. Walmart has declined to disclose how many workers would be affected by the change in policy. One of the key provisions of the Affordable Care Act is the expansion of Medicaid to cover people who make under a certain level of income. Labor and Health Care experts are saying that a majority of Walmart’s workers will qualify for Medicare under the new law. If an employer has a worker that receives insurance through Medicare than their employer has to pay a fine. The fine is substantially less than the cost of health care for the worker. 

You remember all those lazy bums who were supposedly just going to slack off and let the government pick up after them if we expanded healthcare? We’ve found them. They’re called corporations.

(via rhazade-waterbender)