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What has Wal-Mart and SEIU endorsed?

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What has Wal-Mart and SEIU endorsed?

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We agreed on a set of principles that say that it’s not time for incremental change, its time for fundamental change, which means universal health care for every man, woman, and child. That we believe in quality prevention, choice in the health care system, and a shared responsibility in financing, which includes employers. I actually want to talk about that term “fundamental change” for a minute. What struck me when I read the principles was that SEIU could be talking about one thing and Wal-Mart could be referencing another. So you can achieve “universal health care” by giving the insurers massive subsidies so it’s profitable for them to cover everybody, or you can really reform the system, institute community rating, end discrimination based on preexisting conditions, refocus the system on patients rather than profits, and so on. Now, those two approaches are very, very different, but both fit within the rubric that you laid out there. So when you say fundamental change, do you thin

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