My heart about broke.....  

I've been reading about this woman and feel really bad for her and her family.

Even so, I don't think that a scapegoating of WalMart is what's called for here.

WalMart had an insurance plan for its workers. It didn't make up its own insurance plan, either, but, instead, chose Blue Cross/Blue Shield for its provider.

Blue Cross/Blue Shield was the one with the fine print clause instead of WalMart. WalMart just chose an insurance plan that would provide the best coverage for its many workers.

If it started making exceptions to the rule, everybody working for WalMart would end up being the losers because they might end up with nothing left to cover anything that might ail them.

If you were going to scapegoat anyone, it would be the lawyer/lawyer team who took more than half of the settlement won for her--a settlement that should have been higher and with a lower percentage going to the lawyer.

If WalMart made an exception for Debbie and her family, there would be people banging at its corporate doors demanding exceptions for them, too.

These kinds of lawsuits are what put chain businesses out of business--and, along with them, the people who worked for them who are now out of jobs.

However, the lawyer fees taken from her settlement go to either a single lawyer or a team of lawyers, and the lwayer(s) no doubt will get many amounts like this from numerous cases.

There isn't one person named WalMart raking in all of those profits. There isn't even one team of a handful of people who receive the profits. This money is divided among thousands of investors. Otherwords, this is a pie divided into slivers instead of the large pieces enjoyed by a law office or the entire pie enjoyed by a single lawyer.

If Debbie had worked for a Mom & Pop store, she wouldn't have been able to get the insurance coverage that she received working for WalMart--which isn't to bash Mom & Pop places either, as I love them and think they make America great.

But, if we keep on suing places like ChiChi's (now history), WalMart, McDonald's, etc. until they all go out-of-business--not to mention bringing unions into the picture that go beyond reasonable demands to practically wanting companies such as General Motors to turn their employees into heirs in order to avoid strikes--we're going to end up with a lot of closed businesses and people out-of-work.

Of course, it will then be easy for some powerful dictator to take over our country, and we'll wish (once we get a clue) that we were back in the good old days of WalMart, McDonald's, etc.