If Walmart unfairly drives small businesses out of business, Why would a state group of small companies oppose the Walmart bill?

States and Employers Duel Over Health Care
May 6, 2005 - The New York Times


...Ellen Valentino, Maryland director for the National Federation of Independent Business, whose state group of small companies opposed the legislation.

But backers of the Maryland bill, which seemed to take special aim at Wal-Mart, the nation's largest employer, say the support for it there indicates a growing recognition of the growing financial burden of caring for the uninsured. They say taxpayers are unfairly supporting too many companies' uninsured workers, who turn to government programs like Medicaid or simply show up in the emergency rooms of hospitals subsidized by the state to provide care to people unable to pay.

Jonathan Parker, campaign director of Americans for Health Care, a union-led group in Washington that helped push for the Maryland bill,...