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A Health-Care Greeting: Welcome to Wal-Mart

by Froma Harrop

Americans agree on health care. Ask them, "Who should pay for it," and they all answer, "Not me." But follow up with, "Who, then?" and you have a fight on your hands.

Wal-Mart has greatly improved the quality of the conversation with its newfound support for requiring employers to help pay for their workers' health coverage. Its bombshell statement astounded the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and National Retail Federation.

Five years ago, Wal-Mart led th ...

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Posted by: webass
Comment: #1
Thu Jul 2, 2009 9:32 AM

You're so naive. When healthcare is mandated and employers MUST provide healthcare coverage for all employees just how many companies do you think, given today's economic climate, will be able to afford it? According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce the number will be quite limited. Now, just which U.S. company do you believe will have the financial resources to pay that burdened expensel? Yep, our friends from Arkansas, the world's largest retailer. And, when so much of their competition goes belly-up, they'll quietly tick up their prices (remember, less competition) to pay for healthcare for their millions of employees (They're also the largest employer in the U.S.). So, in actuality, Wal-Mart won't foot the bill their customers will. And they'll have a lot more customers because, remember the part about less competition? By the time Obama gets through with his far left agenda, there'll only be two corporations left, Wal-Mart for all the stuff we need to live, and GE for all the rest. And that's not socialism, it's fascism.

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