Wal-Mart Should Pay Its Fair Share for Health Care
We have a health care crisis in America and morally bankrupt
corporations, like Wal-Mart, are contributing to this crisis by
failing to live up to their responsibilities.
By
paying poverty-level wages and poor benefits in order to increase
profitability, Wal-Mart has over 600,000 workers without company
health care. In fact
1 out of every 2 children of Wal-Mart workers lives without
health care or relies on public programs.
In
response to this crisis, a grassroots movement to pass the "Fair
Share For Health Care" Act has begun. This law would require
dead-beat corporations to provide a minimum health care benefit
to their employees or be forced to pay into state health care
funds so taxpayers aren't forced to subsidize a multi-billion
dollar corporation.
Ask
your Governor to reform the way Wal-Mart type businesses behave
in your state by enacting Fair Share For Health Care legislation.
We have a health care crisis in America. Large corporations, like Wal-Mart, are contributing to this crisis by failing to live up to their responsibilities.
By paying sub-standard wages and benefits in order to increase profitability, large corporations are shifting costs onto taxpayers by forcing employees to rely on publicly funded health care programs and for other public assistance services. Despite $10 billion in net profits, in almost every state where data has been released, Wal-Mart leads all companies with the most employees on taxpayer-funded public health assistance.
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In response to this crisis, I call upon you to initiate a Fair Share For Health Care bill in the legislature. A "Fair Share Health Care" bill will help expand health care coverage by requiring the biggest companies in our state to either provide decent health care to employees, or reimburse the state for the increases in taxpayer-funded public health assistance.
Sincerely,
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