Wal-Mart’s HR video on the company health care plan

What a load of propaganda, with a litlle bit of you know what mixed in.

“Wal-Mart has the right to sue you for all you’re worth if you ever even THINK about using the company health plan”

Alex Goldschmidt you should get an award for being the biggest lying and most STUPID A$$ on this site.  You’ve certainly earned that award.... this quote being your best work yet.  Congrats!

Alex has been having something of a field day with the Shank story, lately…

Reckon we’ll see mention of this past week on his resume when he, like so many others, departs WMW for bigger pastures?

Thank goodness we don’t have to depend on companys (like Walmart) for healthcare. This is enough of an example to show that Universal Healthcare is the future.

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Alex,

Questions:  Had this accident happened to Mrs. Shank in Canada, what would have been the outcome?  Would she have been able to sue the trucking company and their insurance company for $1 million?  If she had collected damages in the suit, would she get to keep the money recieved for medical bills, even though they had been paid under the Healthcare system, therefore collecting ‘twice’ for the same bills?

Alex has been having something of a field day with the Shank story, lately…

Alex and every other journalist in the country. Pick up a paper. Turn on the news. This may well be the biggest PR disaster since the leaking of the Chambers memo.

For awhile there it looked like Wal-Mart was going to stop shooting itself in the foot. Fewer shots maybe, but bigger caliber!  ((OW!))

You need to get out more, bbrd.

Ken V,

“Alex and every other journalist in the country. Pick up a paper. Turn on the news. This may well be the biggest PR disaster since the leaking of the Chambers memo.”

What you say may be true, but, in the end, I would be willing to bet, that the Shanks will end up a whole lot better off, then they would have been, if this whole thing had never happened!!  And, really, isn’t that what is most important?

I would like to field that question addressed to Alex about what would happen to her in Canada.  Number one, all her health care expenses (except prescription) would be paid automatically by the state.  All her rehab, therapy, home care, all of it, except the painkillers, and many of us want to fix that. 

Secondly, if you are an employee and you get hurt in any capacity at any company and was on the job, disability kicks in and covers you until your well.  You have to fight for it (I have limited experience with it) but at least its there.  If she was not on the job then, as Ive said, the state makes sure you stay alive, and she would have indeed sued the trucking company for damages. 

Now, Im with you guys in that theirs alot of pointless greedy litigation in this country, hence why I used the system when I needed it and got off it as soon as I could make a way for myself to get off it.  Not everyone is me though…

I do think Walmart is a terrible example of our oil dependence.  The majority of their wares are foreign imports from thousands upon thousands of miles away and a hundred different shores.  The amount of energy it takes (in oil) is astronomical.  The foods they sell are absolutely full of chemicals (anything in a box, ladies and gents, isn’t gonna be good for ya), and they do have a way of destroying good, local economies that are sustainable, and trading it for this global economy which isn’t stable at all. 

Big box marts are corporations, including all the national grocer chains, discount stores and warehouse outlets.  Corporations have been purposely designed to focus on being resource harvesters and shrewd, almost cutthroat style businesses.  The wise Presidents of the past warned future governments to never let them get to much power or they would supplant the government, and ruin the world. 

They have that forewarned of power now, and Walmart is just one example of how a corporations logic does not run paralell with the logic of human decency.

Frank : I am so impressed with the balanced approach of Canadian commenters.IMHO, as long as we as Americans define ourselves as a nation of consumers firstly,rather than citizens - of a civilized society-we are doomed to be controlled and owned by corporate slave masters-to whom we have willingly enslaved our own selves; and, to whom we have abdicated total control over our lives and government.