Reply #23: I don't know why they DON'T have health clinics already [View All]

[jmowreader]

Wal-Mart currently has vision care centers in its stores. They lease the space to an optometrist, and he runs it as his own little fiefdom. (My wife used to work at Wal-Mart, and she tells me the jewelry department is run the same way.) An MD with some nurse practitioners or physician's assistants on staff could run a clinic, no problem, and there'd be no real problem with their maintaining records for continuity of care.

I think we all know the biggest problem with McCainCare, and it's not the fact you can't find a doctor when you need one. In Fayetteville we've got too fucking many doctors, if anything. We've got a guy who stays open until 9pm. The hospital's got two Urgent Care Clinics where you can go instead of the ER to get seen quickly. You can get all the care you can afford in this town, but that's the catch: you need money, and McCain's "outcome-based approaches" line doesn't help with that. Okay, a lot of places DON'T have the overabundance of doctors we have (mainly because a lot of places don't have the 100,000 dependents packing Tricare cards that we have--when you practice medicine in Fayettenam, North Carolina, you KNOW you're going to get paid) but still...people don't go to the doctor because they can't afford a doctor in most cases, not because they can't find one.