Wal-Mart Aims to Become Largest Provider of Primary Healthcare Services

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Wal-Mart Aims to Become Largest Provider of Primary Healthcare Services

“Wal-Mart wants to be your doctor,” writes Julie Appleby and Sarah Varney of NPR.

Well, perhaps their aspirations aren’t that great. It’s more likely that Wal-Mart sees an opportunity in the market and they want in on it.

In a request sent to the their partners, the retail giant writes that they intend “to build a national, integrated, low-cost primary care healthcare platform that will provide preventative and chronic care services that are currently out of reach for millions of Americans.”

Based on their 14-page request, it appears that Wal-Mart is looking to offer medical services that range from the management of diabetes to HIV infections, reports NPR.

On Tuesday, Wal-Mart spokeswoman Tara Raddohl confirmed the proposal.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/wal...gest-provider-of-primary-healthcare-services/

uh oh......liberal heads will explode

 

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Wal-Mart Aims to Become Largest Provider of Primary Healthcare Services

“Wal-Mart wants to be your doctor,” writes Julie Appleby and Sarah Varney of NPR.

Well, perhaps their aspirations aren’t that great. It’s more likely that Wal-Mart sees an opportunity in the market and they want in on it.

In a request sent to the their partners, the retail giant writes that they intend “to build a national, integrated, low-cost primary care healthcare platform that will provide preventative and chronic care services that are currently out of reach for millions of Americans.”

Based on their 14-page request, it appears that Wal-Mart is looking to offer medical services that range from the management of diabetes to HIV infections, reports NPR.

On Tuesday, Wal-Mart spokeswoman Tara Raddohl confirmed the proposal.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/wal...gest-provider-of-primary-healthcare-services/

uh oh......liberal heads will explode

Your understanding of liberal 'heads' is lacking, dear boy. There is nothing wrong, in principal, with Walmart entering the 'med' market. What would be very wrong would be if they sourced their products from untested sources and if they increased their prices if they successfully took the market.
So judging by past experience I would not put too much on the first, I'd put everything on the second and I'd also bet that Walmart would force manufacturing prices down so far that quality might well become an issue. There needs to be a very strict amount of governance aimed at the merry Waltons.
Interesting now to watch where they invest.