{"id":2383,"date":"2009-08-06T21:35:38","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T01:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=2383"},"modified":"2009-08-06T21:35:38","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T01:35:38","slug":"official-wal-mart-wants-health-plan-to-cover-illegal-aliens-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/06\/official-wal-mart-wants-health-plan-to-cover-illegal-aliens-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: Wal-Mart Wants Health Plan to Cover Illegal Aliens AUDIO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chicago Public Radio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Official: Wal-Mart Wants Health Plan to Cover Illegal Aliens<\/strong><br \/>\nProduced by Chip Mitchell on Monday, July 27, 2009 <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A top Wal-Mart executive visiting Chicago says the retail giant wants health-care reform to cover immigrants who lack authorization to be in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Wal-Mart broke from most other big U.S. companies last month by announcing support for requiring employers to provide a medical plan to workers. That\u2019s a key component of President Barack Obama\u2019s planned health-care overhaul.<\/p>\n<p>Now a Wal-Mart senior vice-president says the Arkansas-based company supports something else.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. John Agwunobi heads a Wal-Mart unit that includes the company\u2019s health clinics. He spoke Sunday in Chicago on a health-care reform panel at a convention of the National Council of La Raza, a Latino civil-rights group. The moderator posed this question:<\/p>\n<p>MODERATOR: What about health-care coverage for undocumented immigrants?<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Agwunobi described Wal-Mart\u2019s position.<\/p>\n<p>AGWUNOBI: We believe strongly that everyone should have access to affordable health insurance. Everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the Wal-Mart executive, President Obama last week said illegal immigrants should not get coverage. The only exception, he said, is children.<\/p>\n<p>Update: Wal-Mart is backpedaling on Dr. John Agwunobi\u2019s comments. Listen to an extended version of the comments. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagopublicradio.org\/Content.aspx?audioID=35767\">HERE<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Public Radio Official: Wal-Mart Wants Health Plan to Cover Illegal Aliens Produced by Chip Mitchell on Monday, July 27, 2009 A top Wal-Mart executive visiting Chicago says the retail giant wants health-care reform to cover immigrants who lack authorization to be in the United States. Wal-Mart broke from most other big U.S. companies last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}