Re: A brief description about the story of the Disabled person sued by Wal-Mart

seeking this money if within their rights, just explains the REAL issue with
usa health care,,, costs , who must cover it, -you!!!

in canada the company you work for does pay any bill for hospital - your
medical insurance covers it,, they pay a premium for the entire companies
insurance policy,, employees pay monthly off their cheques a monthyl
medical insurance premium,, 30 bucks??

so after your out of hospital walmart wont be sueing you for covering
costs, they wont have to ever pay,,

if your hurt at work-- the settlement is paid for by walmarts isurance
provider,, if you sue them,,, never out of walmarts pocket unless they are
negligently involved with your injury.

cheers
bobbyD


"Shelley" <noway@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks Larry. I was a little slow on the uptake of explaining the story.
I believe the cost of her care (so far) has been about $470,000, and the
award that they received and put into a health care trust for her was just
over $400,000, of which about $270,000 remains. WallyMart is suing for
the whole nut: $470K.

Now WallyMart is obviously within their rights to sue for the money back,
but nothing REQUIRES them to do so. "Well then everyone else will think
they can do the same thing," is the argument. "It'll bankrupt the
system!!!" Not if you don't publicize it, just do the kind thing and let
it go, just stop chasing that judgment and leave them alone, without
looking for any acknowledgement, something to publicize in one of their
ads about how good they are to their employees... but that would be the
HUMANE attitude, not just the dollar and cents of it. And they've
certainly gotten more than a half a million bucks in BAD advertising out
of it, btw.

Nor does it matter that the husband is working 2 jobs to do his part.

Nor does it matter that their son was killed in Iraq, 2 weeks after
arriving there.

Too much rain has fallen into this family's life; WM could try not adding
to it, maybe letting them keep what's left in that trust for a little
umbrella. You can't be fiscally responsible all the time. Some times you
just have to be morally responsible... I know it's a lot to ask in today's
world where we screw people out of their pensions to get the balance ***
back in line and so on and so forth, but IT WOULD BE NICE... that's all.

Just my $.02, as always... :)))

Shelley

"DadmanLarry" <LarryCravetz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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For those who have trouble getting/seeing videos...

The Disabled person in the story is someone who worked for Wal-mart
and was injured in an auto accident.When the trucking company's
insurance finally settled with the lady, Wal-Mart took advantage of a
part of her employment agreement that said they could recoup some of
their costs (the payments for her care post-accident, which was very
substantial).

So in a nutshell, they acted within their legal rights, although the
ethics of it are, in my humble opinion questionable. No real shock
there though!

Hope all is swell and not swollen,

-- DadmanLarry




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