Walmart Sophistry

This is "spin" directly lifted from www.walmartfacts.com:

Health Care Coverage
Fact: Our health care plan insures full-time and part-time associates once eligible. Last year, this was more than 500,000 associates, including many family members. Currently, 86 percent of Wal-Mart hourly store associates surveyed have medical insurance - 56 percent of those with coverage received health care insurance from Wal-Mart and the remainder receive health care through another source such as another employer, a family member, the military or Medicare.

Now, let's see. That means that 14% of Walmart "associates" have NO health insurance at all. How does that compare with employers like Ford, Delta, or Dell Computer? The whitewash then admits that only 56% of the 86% receive insurance through Walmart. Now why do they refer to the 88% number at all if not to take credit for the efforts of other employers or Medicare? Did they forget to mention Medicaid? Does Walmart or does Walmart NOT have an "associate" in Georgia who assists Walmart "associates" in applying for Medicaid? Another minor difference glossed over by this Walmart mouthpiece is the fact that "associates" pay for part, most, or all their healthcare coverage? How does that compare with employees of IBM, Southwest Airlines, or General Motors?