Day: March 24, 2024

Walmart Self-Checkout Scheme Backfires – INFLATION ALERT: Business overhead expenses for Walmart shopper thieves goes up.

A self-checkout machine doesn’t earn a salary or hourly wage. These silent, non-complaining beasts don’t need expensive company provided health insurance or Workers Compensation. They don’t get paid time off either. The little Beasties, it was thought, were going to reduce payroll costs and increase profits for the retail giant.

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By Doug Aldeen

Oregon recently published the results of a study that confirm that by implementing a cap on facility prices at 200% of Medicare ( IP ) and 185% of Medicare (OP) for its state health plan, costs would eventually decrease. This is a good place to start but there might be another way to look at it as well:

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“He first turned to the employee benefits consultant who had assured him he was getting a great deal—someone whose advice also cost $30 per employee per month.”

“That’s insane, that was millions of dollars,” Cuban says. “The person who put me into a program where I was paying eight times more than I should have for generic medication, they’re done.”

Around the time he dropped the consultant, Cuban was planning to get a CT colonoscopy, which he says would’ve cost more than $2,000 through insurance. Yet the walk-in cost for the same procedure was less than $500.

Continue reading Mark Cuban Fires His Insurance Consultant