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Even if Wal-Mart's total healtcare costs are $500 million this year
It will only represent 3% of their profit (also known as Net Income) for this year.
(Assumung they only make a $15 billion profit in 2014) (Source)
They made $4 Billion in profit last quarter, alone.
Full Disclosure: If I were a Wal-Mart shareholder, I probably would not post this since they paid $1.55 billion in dividends last quarter. But I am not a WMT shareholder, so eff those guys.