Wal-Mart and Affordable Health Care
Wal-Mart's advance into health care is a testament to private-sector industriousness. While others whine about America's health care "crisis," and back monstrous government programs to solve it, Wal-Mart is actually making care more affordable.
Wal-Mart will place in-store medical clinics in up to 400 stores in the next two or three years. If successful, there could be clinics in as many as 2,000 stores by 2014, fully half of their stores.
With low prices that are the Wal-Mart standard, the clinics will particularly help the poor. Yet they will be operated by local hospitals or independent professions.
Wal-Mart's actions shows a continuing commitment to meet the health-care needs of the public, as it follows on the heels of significant prescription drug price cuts introduced last fall.
Already, Wal-Mart has brought low-cost health care by selling 30-day supplies of more than 300 generic prescription drugs at some stores for $4. Almost a third of those $4 prescriptions are bought by the uninsured. Customers have saved $290 million through the program just since September.
Tell me who you would trust more with your health care, Wal-Mart or Hillary? As for me, I'll opt for the answer provided by capitalism over big nanny government any day of the week.
Blog post #6589 in category
Healthcare
posted 26 April 07