The Free Market in Action

What's that, valued employee? You say your wife has a super expensive type of cancer? You'd like some schedule flexibiliy to deal with this fatal illness?

Well, how about instead we fire you?

Yah, that sounds about right.

"It shocks me," said Kathleen, Sorabella's wife of 23 years. "People are supposed to help each other. I guess corporate America is different." When AOL Jobs reached her, she had just finished her first round of chemotherapy, and was "wicked nauseous." Their current financial troubles are not helping matters. With Sorabella out of a job and his wife too sick to work, they're not sure how they're going to cover her expenses.

Emphasis mine.
I'm constantly amazed how many people have to be woken up to this self-evident fact.

Wake up people, this is America.