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This 3 page paper summarizes an article about the new health clinics being opened in Wal-mart stores, and briefly discusses the concept. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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The Article "Fortune" Magazines April 3, 2006 article described Wal-marts announcement that it planned to open medical clinics in its supercenters across the country (Kirkland, 2006). Speculation immediately arose that
Wal-mart intended to take on the health-care industry, but the reality is much different (Kirkland, 2006). Wal-mart is not offering comprehensive health care-there wont be anyone doing surgery on
the premises or giving chemotherapy treatments (Kirkland, 2006). The centers instead focus on helping people handle "everyday ailments like colds, flu, strep throat and pink eye" (Kirkland, 2006). The clinics
will charge approximately half of what a visit to the doctors office would cost, a significant savings for the uninsured, who are forecast to make up about half the clinics
customers (Kirkland, 2006). The clinics are also offering programs to help customer stay well, rather than letting them get sick and then curing them (Kirkland, 2006). This effort "Stay Well
screenings for basic preventive medicine. For instance: a $29 blood test to determine your cholesterol profile with glucose, vs. what RediClinic claims is a "retail" price of $65" (Kirkland, 2006).
The clinics will be open seven days a week: "7 A.M. to 7 P.M. weekdays, 8 A.M. to 6 P.M. Saturdays, and noon to five on Sundays," which should be
flexible enough to meet the needs of most consumers (Kirkland, 2006). Initial reaction to the clinics has been very positive, so much so that Wal-mart plans to open "12 clinics
with four partners by the end of 2006. (The clinics are owned and operated by vendors; Wal-Mart merely leases them its valuable floor space.) In February it pledged to open
50 more by next January" (Kirkland, 2006). However, it seems unlikely that Wal-mart will make much of an impact on the health care industry, since most of the skyrocketing medical
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