County Presses For “Wal Mart” Health Insurance Law

Buffalo, NY (WBEN) - Erie County is going after “big box” retailers who fail to provide heatlh care for their employees.

The Erie County legsislature approved a resolution Thursday, trying to get figures on county costs, specifically stemming from medicaid recipients who work at low paying jobs.

“80 percent of the uninsured are working people. They are, in fact, employed. And many of them are employed by the type of big box retailers .. that this legislation seeks to address,” says Legislature Majority leader Maria Whyte (D-Buffalo)

To hear more from Whyte, and other county legislators, click on the audio link above for a report from WBEN’s Barbara Burns

The legislation also offers support for a “fair share for health care” law being proposed in Albany. The bills are aimed at forcing large and mid-sized employers in New York to provide health insurance for their workers. They’re patterned after laws passed in Maryland and Massachusetts and efforts in other states to broaden health-care coverage.

The Maryland bill was known as “the Wal-Mart Law,” for it’s speciific reference to low wages paid by the large retailer.

I knew this would happen, these people have no ideas of their own and all they do is copy some one elses. As if it isn’t expensive enough to do business in NY, Mass and Maryland. The next state will be California, one socialist state follws another.