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Keith Pryor
Director, Leadership Advisory Services
Health Strategies & Solutions, Inc.

“Many Wal-Mart workers use Medicaid,” screamed the headline in the March 2, 2006 Philadelphia Inquirer. The article went on to explain that nearly 16% of Pennsylvania Wal-Mart employees are dependent upon Medicaid. 

I imagine that the newspaper’s editors might have expected this headline to be another embarrassment to Wal-Mart leadership in particular, and corporate leadership in general, for failing to provide health insurance to their employees. 

But my guess is that many business leaders saw that headline and thought, “so what?”