Thursday, April 2, 2009
A helping hand or a snatch and grab?
Walgreens has announced a new plan that could be good news for patients but trouble for primary care providers. Under the Take Care Recovery Plan, patients who lose their jobs can get free basic care from the stores' minute clinics. That is, as long as the patients were clinic customers before they lost their jobs.
It's hard to criticize any program that provides care to the uninsured, but this plan does seem designed to use fear of the recession to lure insured patients away from their doctors' offices. Will this lift some of the burden of unpaid care from internists, or realize the concerns of the anti-minute-clinic crowd? Tough call.
Labels: health insurance, primary care
posted by Stacey Butterfield at
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