Similarly, there are those who simply use initiatives as window dressing to appease the public. Because the market is so competitive, and because of some of the negative publicity generated regarding the company, it is important that WalMart continues to innovate, find ways of retaining customers and employees, and works to change a potentially negative paradigm into a more positive one. Part 2 -- Madrid Workers

In early May, 2013, thousands of doctors and nurses in Spain went on strike to protest cuts in governmental funding of healthcare. Living in the United States and paying a large premium for insurance, this writer's cultural beliefs initially ask why it is the government's responsibility to fund healthcare to the level it is in Spain, as opposed to sharing those costs with the users of the system? (Day, 2013). Indeed, one is also reminded of the fiscal crisis in Greece and the notion of social welfare. All of these presumptions color the ethical perspectives on this issue, since they seem to point to a view that the citizen is "owed" something as opposed to working for it. Ethically, who would not want better health care for all; who would want to deny individual needs? However, by the same...

Everyone born since the middle 1950s has enjoyed free access to health care and a number of health benefits. That perspective holds that the purpose of government, and the taxes paid by the citizens, are designed to benefit the population. Spain, like everywhere else, is experiencing a demographic shift in the number and percentage of senior citizens, all of whom require more healthcare. From this perspective, any cuts to the medical system are unethical, as well as hurtful to a majority of Spaniards.
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Day, P. (May 7, 2013). Madrid's Health Workers Strike. Reuters. Retrieved May 2013 from: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/07/us-spain-austerity-health-idUSBRE9460PW20130507

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