Barbara Simpson seems to be confused.
Immediately above she writes:
In a town 10 miles away, two other elderly women, 76 and 83, wound up in the hospital after collapsing from the heat while standing outside a store waiting for their shots.
What does a supermarket selling flu shots (usually at a steep discount) to their customers have to do with government heatlh care? The local store I frequent does the same thing for their customers and the government has nothing to do with it.
It is incredible that Barbara Simpson is a paid journalist. There are so many inconsistencies and errant facts in her story above it's a shock she got it past the editors.