Maryland’s legislature has passed a bill requiring companies with more than 10,000 employees to spend at least 8% on health care or put the money into a state fund for poor residents’ health care. People have been calling it the “Wal-Mart Bill” because they’re the only Maryland employer who has enough employees to qualify. And they don’t pay most employees enough to let them purchase their own health care. I guess something has to give to enable them to offer those low prices. That is, something beyond American jobs, of course.
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