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Potential impact of Wal-Mart's health cost crisis on physicians.

Publication: Managed Care Quarterly
Publication Date: 01-MAR-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has come under attack from critics for having thousands of its employees and their families on Medicaid rolls or otherwise unable to afford health insurance on what they earn. Wal-Mart would like to improve its reputation, but it does not want to do so by being so generous that its health care costs rise even faster. A memo written by Susan Chambers, Wal-Mart's vice president of benefits, is one of the bluntest assessments of corporate health benefits ever released. This memo was released in October, the day after an earlier version was leaked to The New York Times and Wal-Mart Watch, a Web site critical of the company. The memo is a study of how one large, influential company wants to effect change among employees and their interaction with the health care system.

While the focus is not on physicians directly in the memo, some note that they will find the effects of what Wal-Mart wants to do. Wal-Mart's actions "have a societal impact that goes significantly beyond...

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