Nate Hurst
Nate Hurst
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These bills are set up to attack us and to attack business across the board. This bill is about politics. And it's bad politics.
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We provide insurance to over 1 million Americans. Clearly this bill is about politics -- bad politics.
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We believe that everyone should have access to affordable health insurance. This type of legislation does nothing to accomplish that goal.
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We believe that everyone should have access to affordable health insurance. The Senate's vote on this legislation does nothing to accomplish this goal.
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Wal-Mart provides health insurance to full and part-time associates. For many associates, a job at Wal-Mart means new access to health coverage.
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Wal-Mart is, in fact, taking people off America's uninsured list. We estimate that we've taken 160,000 people off the ranks of the uninsured.
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The fact is employers like Wal-Mart are good for working families.
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Unfairly targeting individual companies is simply not the answer, especially when it's a company like ours that provides health insurance to over one million Americans.
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There are several legislators out there who have requested that we continue to educate them.
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This is a first step in engaging in a dialogue that will be important to this company and to this country.
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They're about competition and consumer choice. We feel consumers should be able to choose how and where they shop. Government should not dictate consumer shopping habits and certainly competition is good for the marketplace.
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The important point is that we offer all our employees, full and part time, eligibility for health coverage that costs as little as $23 per month.