Burnt Orange Report: :: Public Education Salaries, CHIPs and the GOP

Burnt Orange Report: :: Public Education Salaries, CHIPs and the GOP

The San Antonio Express news ran a story on Saturday headlined:

Wal-Mart workers dipping heavily into CHIP to insure kids

One would think from that headline that the story is primarily about Walmart's pitiful health insurance benefits. And if you need to know more about how Walmart shortchanges its employees on benefits, just look here
or here.

But that's not what drew my attention to the story. Read the first few grafs of the story:

One of the richest companies in the world also has more employees enrolled in the Children's Health Insurance Program than any other Texas employer.

That means taxpayers are subsidizing Wal-Mart, said state Rep Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio.

"The numbers don't lie. It's a problem," he said.

The numbers also show most of the top 10 employers whose workers enrolled their kids in the CHIP program last year are school districts, led by Houston's.

The University of Texas System was in third place, according to the statistics, the most recent available from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.

And Wal-Mart had a lower percentage of employees using CHIP than most school districts on the list.

Read the rest at BOR.