Re: Why does Wal-mart have to provide Insurance?

Well, the entire medical insurance system is a complete frickin' joke, anyway.

Between what I pay and what my employer pays, it costs just under $12,000 per year for medical insurance for me and my family.

In any year that we aren't having a baby, all of my medical expenses come under the deductible, and the rest of what we get is out of pocket because it's not allopathic. Even in the years with baby births, what we paid into insurance was far more than the costs of prenatal care and the deliveries.

What I'd really like to have is "catastrophic insurance". I don't want regular stuff covered, I just want major things that are likely to bankrupt me if they happen to occur, since so much of what we do isn't covered, anyway (since it ain't drugs, surgery, or radiation).

And don't get me started on all the high price crap that insurance will pay for for which there are much cheaper natural or non-surgical alternatives. Grrrrrr.

See, to me, this is just an issue that distracts from the fact that the insurance system is woefully inadequate and basically broken. Instead of needed attention on correcting what's wrong with medical insurance and Medicaid, we can instead fight about whether or not WalMart ought to be insuring its employees (which presupposes major value to allopathic medicine). Tweet