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13 Post author: ChrisHallquist 27 November 2013 05:08AM

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 23 November 2013 10:25:37PM *  7 points [-]

In state after state, the largest group of Medicaid recipients is Walmart employees

This isn't corporate welfare to Walmart or it's employees, it's corporate welfare to our regulatory protected medical industries and guilds.

The vast majority of the supposed "welfare" spending for health care is paid in rent seeking and tribute to the regulatory state and the vested interests they entitle.