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.
The HCAA is an important first step in our campaign to "Make Wal-Mart Care About Health Care." Now, we need your help to introduce the next step, Fair Share for Health Care legislation, in all 50 states. Fair Share for Health Care is a bill to require large, profitable corporations to pay a minimum amount for their workers’ health care. Only you have the power to fight Wal-Mart’s lobbyists and pass this legislation in every state. Please join together with thousands of citizens and be the first to be a Citizen Co-Sponsor. Your action will help change Wal-Mart today!
