Myrl Jeffcoat wisgroup_leader@yahoo.com

All - I continue to hear from many of you regarding difficulty in getting health care, or being shut out because of health insurance premium costs. A couple readers have sent me links and information about Wal-Mart's "QuickHealth" clinics, inside some Wal-Mart stores.
I understand that Target and some other stores offer these quick low cost clinics as well.

The local news provided a cost sheet for various services (averaging $49.00 for a doctor's visit), and costs for a number of lab services.
In addition to the services being quite a bit faster than sitting in an emergency room all day for minor ailments, these may be an avenue for the uninsured to explore.

Here are a a combination of links I have located, and other's have also provided regarding these clinics, and Wal-Mart's partnering with QuickHealth.

Myrl
http://www.webstarmagic.com/wisletter.htm

http://www.myrljeffcoat.com

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Wal-Mart to partner with retail health clinic operator:

Wal-Mart's Clinics Could Change the Nature of Medical Visits:

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/PrescriptionForChange/story?id=257778...

http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/news/20061017-abc.html

Wal-Mart Medical Clinics:

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/catalog.gsp?cat=554492

Quick Health Locations (Wal-Mart and other Stores):

http://www.quickhealth.com/location.htm