We believe that everyone should have access to affordable health insurance. This type of legislation does nothing to accomplish that goal.

The fact is employers like Wal-Mart are good for working families.

Wal-Mart provides health insurance to full and part-time associates. For many associates, a job at Wal-Mart means new access to health coverage.

We provide insurance to over 1 million Americans. Clearly this bill is about politics -- bad politics.

Unfairly targeting individual companies is simply not the answer, especially when it's a company like ours that provides health insurance to over one million Americans.

This is a first step in engaging in a dialogue that will be important to this company and to this country. There is a lot of information out there, and we want to try to get it all in the room and talk on a pretty high level about what the U.S. looks like with Wal-Mart in it.

There are several legislators out there who have requested that we continue to educate them.

Wal-Mart is, in fact, taking people off America's uninsured list. We estimate that we've taken 160,000 people off the ranks of the uninsured.