Wal-Mart Stands Up for Working Families with New Health Care Partnership

From: U.S. Newswire | Date: February 7, 2007 | Copyright information

To: FAMILY EDITORS

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott today stood with leaders from the business, labor and political community to unveil a new partnership aimed at solving America's health care problems. Working Families for Wal-Mart, an organization with more than 150,000 volunteer members, issued a statement regarding the "Better Health Care Together" campaign:

"As Wal-Mart's leaders have long stated, no single entity can solve America's broken health care system. Today's announcement provides an opportunity to ...

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