Is Wal-Mart’s involvement hurting a push by CEOs to reform healthcare? Some critics of the company think so. Jesse Russell reports:

Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott joined other major corporate CEOs and the Service Employees International Union at a summit pushing for universal healthcare coverage in the United States, more than 300 critics of the retail chain were outside calling on the company to take the lead and provide coverage for all of its employees.

Chris Kofinis is with the organization WakeUpWalMart:

[Kofinis]: "When Scott's asked, you know, you support universal health care. Does that mean you're gonna provide better health care for your workers today? Lead by example? What does he say? No I won't."

Thirty-five CEOs have signed onto the group Coaltion to Advance Heatlhcare Reform. The goal of the lobbying group is to push for a market-based solution to the healthcare crisis. One of the primary reasons the companies have been able to come together now is that businesses and not just workers have begun feeling the sting from a healthcare system in decline. Healthcare costs are expected to account for 22 percent of the GDP by 2015. Organizations such as WakeUpWalMart and the United Food and Commercial Workers fear that involving a company that has a poor track record of providing healthcare for its own workers undermines the goals of the coalition. In a press release UFCW President Joe Hansen said, “It s difficult to see how the world s largest corporation can have any moral standing in the effort to establish universal health care when it doesn’t provide affordable health care benefits to its own employees.”