SEIU and Wal-Mart -- The Oddest Couple

Andy Stern, President of the SEIU, and Lee Scott the CEO of Wal-Mart, announced a new partnership to make sure that every American has access to affordable health insurance by 2012.  Sound unlikely?  Even Stern admitted that, calling it "a moment I never expected would have happened in my life."

Stern makes, and Wal-Mart seems to have accepted, an argument that has also been made by NDN Globalization Initiative Director Dr. Robert J. Shapiro, that health care is, in Stern's words, "not just a moral problem but a major drag on American business competitiveness and job creation."

Watch Andy Stern talk about this new coalition, below: