What’s wrong with that?
Nothing but My guess is they use nurse practitioners.
It is not socialized medicine. It is a free market solution to a problem. It is therefore bad. Very very bad.
If nothing else, these clinics might keep the ones with hangnails out of the ER.
I have no problem with that, whether populated with nurse practitioners and whether populated with foreign nurse practitioners. I believe that reasonably skilled nurse pracs can do about 35% of what doctors can do. I think genuine RNs can do 2/3rd of what doctors can do.
If these types of things can relive 35% of the drop-in rate to hospital emergency rooms it would save many tens of billions of dollars a year. Would it affect the high cost of medical insurance? No. There are lots of things it will not be able to do, but IMO, small neighborhood clinics are going to be an important element in our healthcare future. Especially if the floodgates of illegal immigrants are opened wide. But even if they are not, I consider these types of efforts valid. As long as they are not government controlled, ANY effort outside government apportioned healthcare is valid, as far as I am concerned.
WM will clean up with that offer. $40 is about what it should cost, not $125 or more that most doctors must charge.
>> What’s wrong with that?
Nothing especially if they can authorize blood tests.
You are always so timely, 2DV. Just so happens that Mrs PubliusMM has been a bit under the weather for the past few days. She told me to take her the Walmart clinic on Saturday AM. Truth be told, I didn’t have a clue there was such a thing. Turns out it’s operated and staffed by the local hospital group (we only have one...) and features Nurse Practitioners.
Bottom line: In and out in less than a half hour; two blood tests, good screening interaction with the NP, good counseling on Rx, even found a generic substitute antibiotic that is non-sulfa based. Total cost: $68 plus $20 for a seven day supply of antibiotic (that was waiting at the pharmacy when we got down there).
All in all...Mrs. PubliusMM rated it an 8 out of 10.
I have no problem with Walmart clinics. Its affordable for folks who cannot afford health insurance.
Walmart is evil, so everything they do is evil.
And Obamacare is great.
I think that's how it works.
It’s Walmart. All the doctors will speak Chinese.
(In fact, at the local Doc-in-a-Box, the doctors really don’t speak understandable English. But if you need a quick in-and-out for an antibiotic prescription for a sore throat and fever, it’s the best bet. Just don’t expect to know exactly what you had.)