Today, Senator Ted Kennedy, Senator Jon Corzine and Representative Anthony Weiner join with WakeUpWalMart.com to hold a press conference announcing the introduction of the Health Care Accountability Act (HCAA).
The HCAA will expose a costly and growing national problem of large profitable companies, like Wal-Mart, shifting their health care costs onto taxpayers. Wal-Mart's relentless pursuit of corporate greed has come at a high price for their workers' health care.
Poverty level wages combined with high deductibles, costly premiums and strict eligibility requirements force tens of thousands of Wal-Mart's workers, spouses and dependents onto public health care programs designed for needy families and children.
HCAA will require states to disclose which employers have a high number of employees on public health care assistance, like Medicaid. The Bill will also help determine the extent to which taxpayers are subsidizing the health care costs of large, profitable corporations, like Wal-Mart.
For more on Wake-Up Wal-Mart's campaign to "Make Wal-Mart Care About Health Care," visit here:
http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/feature/health-care.html