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If you follow your link from

NCD — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:23:56 +0000

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If you follow your link from emptywheel, which links to Huffpo, and read to the end, you reach this:

....While a shifting of Walmart employees to Medicaid rolls may increase the burden on American taxpayers, it is likely to be a better deal for the workers themselves.

“The packages Walmart is providing for low-income people aren’t offering very much coverage except for catastrophes,” said Linda Blumberg, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, a left-leaning think tank. “It’s likely they’ll be better off going with a government-sponsored plan.”

Marcy Wheeler is point out

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:53:25 +0000

In reply to Obama at Half-Time: The Big Question

Marcy Wheeler is point out how Walmart is dumping its entire health care problem onto Medicaid - by design, as they helped write the legislation back in 2009. Well fine, I suppose - we'll get to government universal health care faster this way, especially with GOP governors punting on setting up exchanges. Just a question who'll pay for it. Ow, what's that pain in my backside?

My guess is this "fiscal cliff" business is going to lead to a whole new batch of raw deals for the general public. Every time DC gets in a hurry, you know there's an executive feeding trough in wait.