Comments on: Evil Walmart Opens Up Healthcare For All

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:09:25 +0000

I thought it was the labor unions who hated Walmart. I know of a few lefties that like it.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:34:37 +0000

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.

By: sarah mosley

sarah mosley — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:02:55 +0000

I would not trust a Wal-Mart clinic.

By: Loyda

Loyda — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:42:36 +0000

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.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:36:37 +0000

Jon,

Labor unions as a whole hate Walmart. The left as a whole does not.

By: Jon S.

Jon S. — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:27:14 +0000

Anecdotal evidence doesn’t prove anything, Michael.

By: Kaleb

Kaleb — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:50:03 +0000

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

By: Archer Martin

Archer Martin — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:20:05 +0000

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…

By: Jon S.

Jon S. — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:32:55 +0000

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.