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Wal-Mart To Provide Medical Care - For Customers
Category: Ho Hum
Wal-Mart is putting medical clinics in its stores. The promise is service within 15 minutes. This is ironic because it provides so little health insurance for its employees.
Based on the history of Wal-Mart should we expect Chinese doctors?
Will doctors sell pants in retaliation?
From ArkansasBusines.com:
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville is pushing the next trend in health care: in-store clinics.Wal-Mart already has 12 such clinics, including one in Fayetteville, and by the end of the year it hopes to have 50 more.
Other retailers, such as Target and Kroger, are warming up to the idea of having health clinics in their stores as owners look for a way to lure customers inside.
"I think it's going to take off like wildfire," said Candace Corlett, principal of WSL Strategic Retail, a Manhattan, N.Y., retail consulting firm. "It's affordable for many people who don't have health insurance."
Each in-store clinic is staffed by a nurse practitioner who will treat 20 of the most common aliments, such as strep throat and bladder infections, for around $50. The health clinics also offer to get the patients in and out within about 15 minutes. No appointment is necessary, and the clinics are open on the weekends.
But the concept makes the some doctors' blood pressure rise.
"My take on it is, 'Would you come to my office to buy a pair of pants?'" said Dr. Larry Fields of Ashland, Ky., president of the American Academy of Family Physicians. "If you would, then you should probably go to Wal-Mart to get your health care."
The American Medical Society said the in-store clinic concept is too new for it to have a position, but it plans to consider the clinics at its annual meeting in June.
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