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The Blog for Tuesday, April 19, 2005

The Florida GOP's "Welfare Queen"

    Rep. Susan Bucher, D-West Palm Beach, has this in the Tallahassee Democrat today
    As states across the country struggle to balance budgets and keep their Medicaid programs in check, data from Florida and 12 other states show Wal-Mart to be a top corporate beneficiary of state-run, taxpayer-funded programs like Medicaid. ...

    In Florida, Wal-Mart has 91,000 employees. Every time an uninsured Wal-Mart worker goes to the ER and can't afford to pay for treatments, all Floridians are picking up the bill. Meanwhile, our Medicaid system is in crisis. ...

    Five employers in Florida account for 29,000 Medicaid-eligible individuals (employees or dependents). Wal-Mart's share represents 42 percent of that group. In Georgia, children of Wal-Mart employees made up over 10,000 of those on Georgia's health-care program for uninsured kids, the PeachCare for Kids program. The next largest employer, Publix, had only 700. ...

    Wal-Mart poured $250,000 into the Florida Republican Party coffers last year.

    Call it "hush money": Wal-Mart keeps lining its pockets with taxpayer money, and the governors agree to keep quiet about it. It's about time someone stood up to them.
    "Wal-Mart: the $288 billion welfare queen".

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