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Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
Griff, you don't see any problem with the one that determines the level and quality of your health care, holding a secret life insurance policy on you? That's why so many states have made it illegal. Oh, and it's on all employees. Sorry if I misled you on that, but it does give them impetus to hire as many oldsters as they can.
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The "secret" policy had to be underwritten by an insurance company. If that company thinks the oldsters are not getting a reasonable level of health care the rates for the life insurance policy should go up. Were they secret because the states have arcane laws or because Wal Mart is murdering its employees?
I don't really want to be the WallyWorld defender here. It sounds like Mart thought they knew more about their employees than the insurance company but its a risk the insurance company wanted to take so...
As with any big corp I'm gonna assume they are guilty of playing with the system and owning politicians. Thats the danger of allowing the states to sanction corporations, it stops being about personal responsibility, morality, or fear of doing time, and becomes about limiting liability, writing law useful to the company, screwing the system most efficiently, sopping up tax dollars, and out-litigating any trouble makers. Its a modern take on good old fashioned mercantilism. Haliburton gets to play the East India Company in this administrations production but I'm sure Kerry will have his favored actors as well.