Walmart wants to be your government health care provider
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It looks like Walmart is interested in the business of healthcare. Earlier this week, the superstore decided to begin offering a large list of medical services which include basic prevention and management of chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease, according to a document obtained by NPR and Kaiser Health News.
Since Walmart stopped offering healthcare benefits to part time employees, the corporation began looking for investors. Their goal, to become the largest provider of primary healthcare services in the nation. Walmart spokeswoman Tara Raddohl confirmed the proposal on Tuesday, but declined to elaborate on specifics.
In a statement released by Dr. John Agwunobi, a senior vice president of Walmart, he claims the firm is “not building a national, integrated low-cost primary health care platform.” Although Dr. Agwunobi claims this is not the case, the request goes on to ask firms to spell out their expertise in a wide variety of areas, including managing and monitoring patients with chronic, costly health conditions. The goal it says is for Walmart to become “the largest provider of primary healthcare services in the nation.”
Analysts believe Walmart is positioning itself to boost store traffic by expanding the number of services offered by its in-store medical clinics. The move would also capitalize on growing demand for primary care in 2014, when the federal health law fully kicks in and millions more Americans are expected to have government or private health insurance.
Walmart’s request asks possible partners to provide information on how they would oversee patients with complicated chronic conditions, including asthma, HIV, arthritis, depression and sleep apnea.
While Walmart’s efforts to partner with others on health care could help lower costs for some patients and increase access to primary care services, health policy experts also say it raises questions.
Will expansion of in-store clinics eventually lead to a partnership between Walmart and the federal government in 2014? Would patients who need specialists fall through the cracks?
“Maybe Walmart can deliver a lot of this stuff more cheaply because it is an expert at doing this with other types of widgets, but health care is not a widget and managing individual human beings is not nearly as simple as selling commercial products to consumers,” says Ann O’Malley, a physician and senior health researcher at the Center for Studying Health System Change, a nonpartisan Washington think tank.
About 1,300 store-based clinics are open nationwide to date.
Is this the beginning of a partnership between Walmart and the federal Government? Will Walmarts quest to become a leader in national healthcare lay the foundation for socialized medicine in the United States?
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- Janice Wolff | November 10, 2011
“Will expansion of in-store clinics eventually lead to a partnership between Walmart and the federal government in 2014?”
Naive question! WalMart & US federal government are already in partnership through “See Something, Say Something”: http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1291648380371.shtm
This newest is just another way to entice people to put on those “golden handcuffs” and become part of their own enslavement. This isn’t about staying self or healthy, it’s about relinquishing liberty which a lot of people in exchange for supposed “security” to be supplied by the government.
Turning over responsibility for one’s self to government – now via WalMart – has become all to easy for many people; it’s the opium that has deadened their reasoned thinking in many aspects of their lives. Stop and deeply consider before taking that next step, that next “puff on the pipe” of government dependence.