How much is this pissing off the enemies of meaningful health care reform?
This much (let's count the many ways this wingnut contradicts himself):
WalMart (WMT) Tuesday joined the Service Employees International Union in backing a new law that would force all employers to subsidize their employees' health insurance.
In reaction, watch the millions of employers that don't offer health insurance to their workers come out in favor of President Obama's public option health plan.
This could kill most private health insurers.
Look for the prices of health insurers to plunge. Health insurers have seen their stock prices soar since March because the ObamaCare public option looked like dead meat. Now, all bets are off.
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You'll hate your new government HMO 10 times as much as you hated the HMOs that made your life miserable in the 1990s until consumer and political backlashes made them allow patients better access to care.
And WalMart no longer will be able to use its fairly attractive health benefits to recruit workers at low wages. They'll need better wages to pay higher taxes and live with increased inflation. And most would rather work somewhere else.
Instead of putting its competitors and unions in a corner with its endorsement of mandated employer-paid health insurance, WalMart has ensured that its customers will be paying higher taxes and buying less of it's stuff.
Ooooh, somebody call the waaaaaaambulance!
Meanwhile, back in reality:
In a huge blow to the opponents of healthcare reform, Wal-Mart has come out in support of a mandate that employers provide affordable healthcare to their employees. Wal-Mart is the nation’s largest employer, and its uninsured employees are one of the biggest drains on the healthcare system. Wal-Mart’s position creates a giant crack in the coalition against healthcare reform.
Wal-Mart along with the SEIU, and the liberal Center for American Progress sent a letter to President Obama expressing support for the employer mandate, "As the nation’s largest private employer, the nation’s largest union of health care workers with over one million members, and a think tank that has been a leader on health care policy, we have worked closely in support of health care reform since 2006, when we came together to help break the stalemate that had defined the health care debate for too long. Now, to move the debate forward once again, we are coming together to advance what we believe are important proposals that should be included in the current efforts to reform our nation’s health care system."
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