Caving into immense public pressure, Wal-Mart announced that Deborah Shank can keep the settlement money she won due to a devastating car accident that left her with no short term memory.CNN shared this statement from Wal-Mart
"Occasionally, others help us step back and look at a situation in a different way. This is one of those times," Wal-Mart Executive Vice President Pat Curran said in a letter. "We have all been moved by Ms. Shank's extraordinary situation."
At about the same time Wal-Mart was issuing their apology, Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scold was scolding American businesses for not getting into the healthcare debate. In an interview with The Financial Times, Lee Scott is quoted as saying,
“I think business has been absent in this debate on healthcare. I’m not sure why,” he said.
“I think government is going to be engaged after this election regardless of who wins, and I think business should be more involved in the discussion. I think it has long-term ramifications for our global competitiveness.”
Mr Scott said Wal-Mart, which has more than 1.3m US employees, had not taken “a firm stand” on what a national healthcare system might look like.
The Financial Times reports that many businesses are staying out of the healthcare debate for the time being (until a president is elected) for fear of hurting their company "image and finances."
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