Two negative posts so far, is this a bad thing?
It seems good to me.
I’ve used Wal-Mart optometrist services with no complaints.
Walmart brought the cost of prescription drugs down when they came out with the $4 and $9 prescriptions. All the other drug stores had to match Walmart’s prices. Question is can they do the same for primary health care?
Yep, Walmart and the pharmacy chains are both promising providers of health care IMO.
Well, a business provides it’s own health services , plus almost everything else... Monopoly, possibly, but also a private alternative to some other options out there.
Hooray for South Carolina!
I've been advocating this for years. There is no need to pay a hospital emergency room hundreds of dollars to suture a cut (or simply clean, disinfect and put a butterfly band-aid on it.) Or tell a worried mom that temp of 101.5 is not dangerous, baring other symptoms.
For a good part of my life my medical treatments were from Navy hospital corpsmen or missionary nurses in Africa, not MDs or hospital emergency rooms. In rural areas our grandparents were treated by family members when possible and basic "triage" was performed by the family or neighbors.
A good RN or EMT located at a convenient, 24 hour facility where the overhead is paid by the retail side of that facility makes a good deal of sense. For that matter, just like most pharmacies have blood pressure testers, it would be relatively easy to create a "Photo-Me" style booth to take your vital signs and give a recommendation.
Of course, the lawyers and the doctor's monopoly full employment union (the AMA) will shoot down that idea.
This is the future of healthcare in this country.
Doctorin’ is hard, and really not worth it with all the new restrictions, regulations, and red tape.
So, there will be fewer doctors and more “practitioners” in “care clinics” around the country.