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Article: Wal-Mart's employee health benefits come under fire.
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- Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA)
- Article date:
- October 19, 2003
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Byline: Janet Adamy
Oct. 19--When Pamela Robasciotti was a cosmetics department manager at Wal-Mart, she had to borrow money from her boyfriend or parents to pay for the $25 inhalers she uses to control asthma attacks.
On a wage of $9.27 per hour, every expense stretched her pocketbook. But the prescription cost seemed particularly unfair. Robasciotti already paid about $130 per month for Blue Cross HMO health care coverage.
"They take $130 a month out plus the pay wasn't really good," said Robasciotti, a 45-year-old Gilroy resident who worked in the town's Wal-Mart for more than six years. "I just got tired of it."
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