based health-care consultant. "Anyone who has a plausible idea on how to solve this should be allowed to play." Sponsor Message In-store medical clinics, such as those offered by Wal-Mart and ...

Wal-Mart is ramping up its Washington activity to push for comprehensive health care reform, and the world’s largest retailer says it is ready to use its economic muscle to get out in front and ...

NEW YORK — Wal-Mart Stores plans to eliminate health insurance coverage for some of its part-time U.S. employees in a move aimed at controlling rising health care costs of the nation's largest ...

Meanwhile, participating providers who were approached by Wal-Mart said they were swayed by the company’s stated health care strategy. “We reviewed Wal-Mart’s philosophy articulating a commitment to ...

It also could help Wal-Mart compete with drugstore chains such as Walgreen and CVS, which are rapidly adding health care services. Wal-Mart says that the program targets shoppers who have been ...

2006-01-27T22:35:51-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/247/190930-m.jpgA panel discussion was held on Wal-Mart and employer health care coverage. The Maryland ...

"Wal-Mart is committed to high quality, affordable and accessible health care. But our current system hurts America's competitiveness and leaves too many people uninsured," Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott ...

Scott said Wal-Mart had reacted proactively on the health care front. In 2006, the company launched its $4 prescription drug program , an effort that has helped popularize low-cost and free ...

WSJ's Miguel Bustillo has details of efforts by Wal-Mart to enlist partners to enable it to create primary health-care clinics in it stores. AP Photo/Seth Perlman The world's largest retailer ...

The National Retail Federation plans to send an aggressively worded letter Monday to its members encouraging them to take a stand against Wal-Mart's backing of an employer-health-care mandate.