Retail Health Clinics

Positive health care reform is happening NOW. By lowering costs and making health care more accessible, these retail health clinics are helping millions.

For an informative alternate perspective of health care, and to get a better idea of why current govt regulations are causing skyrocketing health care costs, please watch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEXFUbSbg1I

It also shows why free markets decrease costs, just as it does for food, clothes, cell phones, etc. Socialism didn't work in the USSR, China, Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea, Cambodia, etc. Even in Switzerland, the Netherlands and Singapore, where the health care systems are highly rated and health insurance is compulsory, health care service is predominately a private enterprise with ample competition. The U.S. currently has a HMO Act signed by Nixon in 1973 requiring businesses to provide health insurance to employees. This and the myriad of other regulations is the cause of rising costs. Please keep an open mind and partake in discussion and ask questions.


Here's the original msnbc article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32681973/ns/health-health_care/

Here's the TIME magazine article:
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1919754,00.html

Here is the Rand Inst. study done showing retail clinics provide the same quality (if not better) care at significantly lower costs: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19721020?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSyst...

Another informative article: http://mises.org/story/3233

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[gnixon70]

This is what the health care industry needs is good old fashioned competition. If you have people selling goods and services for 50 dollars, and your selling it for 100 dollars, you'll either lower prices, or go out of business.  Health care and the pharmaceutical industry should be the same way. People badmouth stores like walmart, etc, but the fact of the matter is that they are always finding ways to lower prices, be it a better logistics dist system or inventory. in short, adapt to survive

[20000miles]

It was nice of them to interview a guy from the AMA too. Unsurprisingly the doctors' cartel thinks these clinics should be monitored because of "potential dangers to consumers".

[Bluedybluedyblue]

And the market always tries to find a way.