Wal-mart Cuts Some Health Care Coverage

By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO, Associated Press
Fri, 10/21/2011 - 10:37am

NEW YORK (AP) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the nation's largest private employer, is scaling back health care coverage for future part-time workers while raising premiums for many of its full-time workers, particularly tobacco users....

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