No not the three seashells!!!
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I doubt Walmart has any interest in staffing clinics with specialist. They are there to provide convenience and access for the more mundane regular health care activities, similar to what tele-medicine provides.
Walmart will sell themđ¤Ł
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Most people donât need to see an actual doctor.
Itâs great to have a good doctor, but thereâs still a need for urgent care facilities.
I wonder what they pay their docs.
They have them in Conyers. I donât like them. You see a random practicioner every time and thereâs no way to establish any provider-patient relationship.
Even in an emergency: if I had the flu I would much rather go to urgent care (because I canât get a PCP here due to insurance not covering it) than Walmart health.
What insurance does not cover PCP office visits?
One that only covers for physicians in Oklahoma.
talking about going to a doctor, not urgent care.
Allan
Yeah but these are urgent cares and many people use urgent care as primary care. Especially the young.
i cant image using urgent care, of course i have an ER appox 1/2 a mile away (Dover General)
Allan
if youâre on Obamacare, you get a Walmart doctorâŚ
will patients in the VA go to Seven-Eleven?!?
For minor illnesses that is correct.
No one should be using the ER outside of a true emergency but they do. Same in the UK.
My youngest lad is an EMT and he says people use the ambulance like a taxi service and he says that abuse transcends all demographics.
A lot of employer health insurance plans have removed copays for the ER and moved it to deductible/coinsurance. Insurance company pays lets say $3k for the ER visit, employee pays $250 and the employer is on the hook for the rest.
The copay model has helped contribute to the rising cost of health insurance as there is no incentive for the individual to be an informed consumer. Obviously quality of care and clinical outcomes are important but cost is a factor.
and in certain states, weâll go to Walmart to make a choice?
whatâs on the shopping list?
bread, milk, eggs, abortion
You still need doctors to staff these places, and if they are in short supply (the main reason health care costs are skyrocketing), all the work arounds in the world wonât work.
Itâs obvious. We need a more competitive health care marketplace. One where doctors are competing for patients without compromising patient safety.
Until that happens, nothing will work.
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People go to the ER for headaches. Which is insane.
Surprised to read this.
Thanks for posting it!
People also use the ambulance as a taxi service. My son is an EMT and comes across it all the time.
One of the demographics of abusers of the ER are people who have a flat dollar copay. This is one reason why many employers have removed copays and gone to a higher cost sharing model. Employees of companies that self fund do not realize that the insurance company just bills the employer for the amount they pay to the ER/doctor etc minus the copay.
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