Walmart..the solution to the Healthcare crisis
I am not a fan of WalMart. For better or worse, the majority of this country and Canada disagrees with me. Everyone else seems to love WalMart. Well, they may not love WalMart but certainly enjoy shopping there. WalMart really does not care whether you love them, they just want you to shop there and you will be rewarded with low prices. Wal Mart does do that. They are able to deliver products and services more efficiently, and thus have lower prices. It demonstrates free markets operating at their best.
No one needs a dose of the free markets behaving correctly more than the healthcare industry. Let's face city hospitals have outlived their usefulness. They are great if you live in a city. They happen to be convenient. Most of us live the suburbs or exurbs. We are closer to shopping malls and big box stores, like Walmart. Next, most of the large city hospitals are located on some pretty expensive real estate. Most of these hospitals could be converted, indeed some are, into co-ops. So we keep the teaching hospitals and the the more important ones. I have always wondered why people living in half million dollar homes or more have to schlep into the city to get decent medical care.
Next WalMart runs the diagnostic clinics and some hospitals. In the Walmart hospital you are greeted by a retired nurses or a nurse who are simply fed up with hospitals. The WalMart Hospital would only have a main level and a lower level with a coffee shop run by McDonalds. . You give the nurse your symptoms and select from a list of possible diagnostic tests, X-ray, blood test, urine test, MRI...of course you would be provided with a price list. You decide what tests are needed. My wife has diagnosed herself with more accuracy than most doctors. Let's face it with the net and Websites like WebMD. you have all the information you need. It's a new world, the doctor can no longer leverage information against you.
The technicians take the X-rays and results are e-mailed to India to be read. You see a doctor, only after you have had the diagnostic tests have been completed and a report is available. The doctor would have to spend no more than fifteen minutes with you deciding whether you need more tests or provide a diagnosis or treatment. Being WalMart, they would have a Walgreen, next door. All this may be provided for a fraction of the cost....
Meanwhile, your spouse may continue shopping for the day. Your time is spent more efficiently and you would not have to pay for parking. Hey, do you have a better idea?
No one needs a dose of the free markets behaving correctly more than the healthcare industry. Let's face city hospitals have outlived their usefulness. They are great if you live in a city. They happen to be convenient. Most of us live the suburbs or exurbs. We are closer to shopping malls and big box stores, like Walmart. Next, most of the large city hospitals are located on some pretty expensive real estate. Most of these hospitals could be converted, indeed some are, into co-ops. So we keep the teaching hospitals and the the more important ones. I have always wondered why people living in half million dollar homes or more have to schlep into the city to get decent medical care.
Next WalMart runs the diagnostic clinics and some hospitals. In the Walmart hospital you are greeted by a retired nurses or a nurse who are simply fed up with hospitals. The WalMart Hospital would only have a main level and a lower level with a coffee shop run by McDonalds. . You give the nurse your symptoms and select from a list of possible diagnostic tests, X-ray, blood test, urine test, MRI...of course you would be provided with a price list. You decide what tests are needed. My wife has diagnosed herself with more accuracy than most doctors. Let's face it with the net and Websites like WebMD. you have all the information you need. It's a new world, the doctor can no longer leverage information against you.
The technicians take the X-rays and results are e-mailed to India to be read. You see a doctor, only after you have had the diagnostic tests have been completed and a report is available. The doctor would have to spend no more than fifteen minutes with you deciding whether you need more tests or provide a diagnosis or treatment. Being WalMart, they would have a Walgreen, next door. All this may be provided for a fraction of the cost....
Meanwhile, your spouse may continue shopping for the day. Your time is spent more efficiently and you would not have to pay for parking. Hey, do you have a better idea?
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