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Headlines : Corporations

Summary:

At last incontrovertible proof that Michael Moore has the MIC on the run.

If only!

But at least there is here some evidence of what great film-making can do to form public opinion and force legislators and corporations to behave better.

Moore’s movie Sicko is a diatribe against American health care. Robert Greenwald’s documentary WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price exposed the monster’s slimy underbelly to millions.

Here with great fanfare, the company is apparently offering better coverage to a greater number of workers. But will they find ways of not actually paying out, as they did last time they announced health care improvements in 2005?

[Posted By Watson]

By MICHAEL BARBARO and REED ABELSON
Republished from New York Times

Sicko scores a hit

For much of the last decade, the retailing behemoth Wal-Mart Stores has been associated with stingy health care as much as low prices.

Across the country, politicians and labor groups derided the company’s health plans for their high expense and bare-bones coverage. Two states, California and Maryland, even passed laws demanding, in effect, that the company spend more on employee health benefits.

“We want this giant to behave itself,” one Maryland legislator, Anne Healey, said at the time.

The giant, it turns out, was listening. All the criticism was hurting its reputation and its ability to expand. So now, after spending two years seeking advice from everyone from Bill Clinton to executives at Starbucks, Wal-Mart is overhauling its health plans.

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Posted by Watson

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