The group Coverage for All also offers a state-by-state guide of health-care choices and has a help line open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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Instead Walmart decided it was going to open its doors earlier on Thanksgiving day - hoping to generate enough revenue to help offset what might be an otherwise disappointing current quarter.

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