Evil Walmart Opens Up Healthcare For All
In a stunning blow to socialists everywhere, Walmart opens 400 medical clinics, continuing it’s tradition of low prices for all. You know, leftists hate Walmart. Always closing down mom and pop stores who have been ripping off local communities since 1902, and opening up markets to higher quality goods for lower prices.
One of the Mexico’s biggest exports have been illegal aliens, and our emergency rooms look more like landing pads for an invasion than medical facilities. With Wal-marts Urgent Care centers, healthcare will be delivered to these folks at a low price while maintaining high quality, thus alleviating some of the economic pressures currently facing the system. Score one for capitalism!
April 25th, 2007 at 7:09 am
I thought it was the labor unions who hated Walmart. I know of a few lefties that like it.
April 25th, 2007 at 8:34 am
Michael,
Just because a few lefties you know like it does not mean the Left has a whole likes it. I remember watching a piece on ABC (I think it was by John Stossel) in college that made WalMart look like the devil. It was laughable.
April 25th, 2007 at 10:02 am
I would not trust a Wal-Mart clinic.
April 25th, 2007 at 10:42 am
Personally I don’t like Wal-mart. My Dad is a diabetic and because of the generic Wal-mart medication that Wal-mart gave him to “save him money” it almost cost him his life. Their generic medication is made in China and full of their garbage. The generic medication they prescribed to him was to help lower his sugar. His sugar, because of the Wal-mart generic, sky-rocked to 400. My Dad was throwing up and fainting and yellowing before my very eyes. It scared us. He could have died. Nope, don’t like Wal-mart.
April 25th, 2007 at 11:36 am
Jon,
Labor unions as a whole hate Walmart. The left as a whole does not.
April 25th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Anecdotal evidence doesn’t prove anything, Michael.
April 25th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
Mom & Pop stores ripping people off?
We don’t need to have a discussion about economies of scale, do we? Either way, Walmart does a good job of treating their employees badly; then again, you made the decision to go work for them. I know at the store in Defuniak they got rid of an old woman who was close to being vested for pension (I believe, it could have been something else, but this was about a yr ago) by taking her from greeter (which she had been the entire time she worked there) to cart collecting in the summertime. Woman was about 65, her husband worked w/ my Dad…pretty despicable, just to try and get out of a commitment you made to a loyal employee. This happens at Walmart constantly; they deserve any bad rep they get. I’ll admit I don’t shop at Walmart, but it’s mainly b/c I hate waiting in line for 30 min just to get something
April 25th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
That sounds pretty bad about the lady in Defuniak.
Thankfully (or, not so much for medical entrepreneurs), Wal-Mart is getting into the lucrative as well as vital field of Urgent Care Centers.
I hope they staff them with BC’d (board certified) family practice or otherwise primary care physicians as opposed to nurse practioners. If they only go with NP with no physician supervision, they are actually doing a disservice to the public with inadequate primary care coverage. In theory, the idea will work out wonderfully as it will depopulate ER’s as well as decrease the cost for basic coverage on things which would cost $5,000 to perform in an ER. This will lower everybody’s health bills, increase physician compensation, and we’ll all be the better off for it.
As far as mom and pops..sure..alot of them rip people off. That’s why folks go to Wal-Mart instead. Still a free marketplace, though, so people can shop wherever they please…
April 25th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
Honestly, my first thought was “oh great, now there’ll be a bunch of sickly less-than-wealthy people going to Wal-Mart”, but then I realized that’s already the case. Might as well get ‘em treated while they’re there.