Retail Health Clinic Updates
filed in Daily Buzz News on Dec.24, 2009
1. Scott Jagow at Marketplace writes about his recent experience getting “Fast, Cheap, and Happy Health Care” at a Minute Clinic.
2. Ronald Bailey at Reason speculates what real market-based health care reform would look like: A lot of routine care could be handled through retail health clinics located in shopping malls, drug store chains, and megastores. Such centers would be staffed not with physicians but with nurse practitioners or other qualified personnel. Consumers generally would pay for routine, everyday transactions directly out of their health savings accounts.
3. Minute Clinics have become the de facto “nation’s pharmacy” by offering H1N1 vaccinations on demand, seven days a week with no appointment necessary at its clinics around the country in 20 states and the District of Columbia.
