Greg Palast Latest Sam Walton Called Hillary "My little lady" ..... Clinics in Wal-Mart connection??

[1776Forever]

From Palast email sent today can be read at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=367x6908:

The South Carolina You Won't See on CNN
South Carolina Primary Colors: Black and White?
by Greg Palast

.....Indeed, the late and lionized King of Union Busters, Sam Walton, would be proud today, were he alive, to learn that the woman he called, "my little lady," Hillary Clinton, whom he placed on Wal-Mart's Board of Directors, is front-runner for the presidency. She could well become America's "Greeter," posted at our nation's door, to welcome the Saudis and Chinese who are buying America at a guaranteed low price....

Erem and Durrenberger ask themselves why they were so drawn to a story of five Carolina cargo-handlers put in prison a decade ago. Maybe it's because the Charleston Five show how courage and heart and solidarity can lead to victory in the midst of a mad march into globalization that threatens to turn us all into the Wal-Mart Five Billion.

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I have been thinking about this and I am very worried that if Hillary does become our next President will she turn Wal-Marts into Clinics for the poor - it is all ready being planned for Wal-Mart to go into this type of business ....

Quoting from Retail Healthcare In Walt-Mart, Target and Other Stores: Comment by Jack Mason, IBM Strategic Communications, HealthNex Producer

http://healthnex.typepad.com/web_log/2006/03/retail_healthca.html

Quote: I took a quick gander at a post on Healthcare NBIC (Disruptive innovations in healthcare) about the rollout of more in-store clinics in Wal-Marts.

The news is a strong reminder that the transformation of healthcare is going to happen in unexpected ways, and unexpected places like retail chains.

The idea of retail healthcare--having nurse practioners help customers with simple health problems such as flu, strep throat and other ailments that can be treated economically by following strict protocols--makes so much common sense that I wonder what the arguments against it might be, or how others perceive this area of healthcare transformation. Is it, for example, just the inevitable way that more costs are going to be borne by consumers, even if those costs are made more reasonable by the massmarket-scale forces of a player like Wal-Mart?

Is this just a a necessary shift in society....providing "good enough," frontline care via a business model that makes more economic sense than a traditional physician practice? Is some care better than none, or is this a "band-aid on a bullet hole," to paraphrase an episode of Gray's Anatomy?

Assuming, for a minute, that this is a good new trend (and I don't have a full answer on that score), what impediments might prevent it from becoming the way millions of people, many of them presumably working class or poor, and uninsured, might get at least the most basic of basic healthcare.

Finally, it just occured that there may be some irony in retail health clinics in Wal-Marts...if so many of the giant's employees don't have health insurance, or make too little to afford premiums, will they become one of the primary group of customers for such services.

And isn't that a bit like the company stores, in company towns of yore?

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Good or bad? I don't really now. I do know that for the chronically ill like my 38 year-old uninsured son who developed progressive MS 4 years ago and who didn't have any children so he wasn't covered at all this clinic style medical help didn't help him. They didn't know what the H to do for him and the ER's were just as bad. It took 2 1/2 years to get him to a local University Medical Clinic that finally got him on the right medication.

So what are we to think? I am not going to be surprised if the Clinton's continue the outsourcing philosophy and help out the world before they help our our country! Link: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/politics/memo1.pdf


I hope if she does get in she will prove me wrong!!!!!!!!!!! :scared:

[papau]

1. Doc in a Box locations are in many chains - Walmart would be late to the game - plus Hill's plan

does nothing re delivery except give incentives for better record keeping and better training.

Palast - like Kos - has lost all credibility with the stupidity they've shown in their hate Hillary posts.

[1776Forever]

2. Thanks for the reply - I hope you are right!

[stravu9]

3. I Knew this!

it sickens me.