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« on: August 29, 2014, 05:12:37 PM »

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What triggered this new business venture? The individual mandate combined with the lack of support by state governments in the South for the exchanges and Medicaid, has caused more of its employees to buy into company insurance instead of pursuing individual.

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I'm not sure if this is good news or not. It's good in that it is one way to help bridge the gap in Republican states that are blocking Medicaid expansion but at the same time it may make them even less urgent to act. But then it also makes WalMart now have an active interest in the insurance mandate staying around if this proves profitable.
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« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2014, 05:21:44 PM »

Sounds like nursing will be the next career to stop offering middle class wages.
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« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2014, 09:47:23 PM »

Sounds like nursing will be the next career to stop offering middle class wages.

Home care workers don't even get minimum wage.
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« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2014, 09:55:54 PM »

"Wal-Mart" and "healthcare" do not belong in the same sentence. 
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« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2014, 11:36:05 PM »

"Wal-Mart" and "healthcare" do not belong in the same sentence. 

It was bound to happen. There is definitely a big risk that speculation and engrossment of such a commodity might make fewer people wanting to become nurses.
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« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2014, 06:41:10 AM »

Sounds like nursing will be the next career to stop offering middle class wages.
Quite the opposite actually.  If you can hack it, it's a great gig.  But only for the "proper" nurses (RNs, obviously, and to a lesser extent LPNs)....butt wipers (the aforementioned Home Care Workers) are never going to get paid well.

As for the OP, I don't know why people would be against poor people (and hell, regular folk too) having more medical options.  The grocery store I go to (decidedly NOT in a poor part of town) has had one of these for a couple of years now and seem to be doing fine.  The old people seem to love it (not sure what service they are using).
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« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2014, 10:43:44 AM »

I've gone to the Minute Clinic at CVS before to get routine vaccinations and never had any problems. You wouldn't go to one for something serious, but they don't want you to and that's not what they're there for.

Getting upset about Wal-Mart offering a service that CVS and Walgreens have been doing for quite some time seems odd.

Sounds like nursing will be the next career to stop offering middle class wages.

Most of the people who call themselves "nurses" aren't Registered Nurses (RNs), who are the only people who should really have the right to call themselves nurses. Nurse's aides, nursing/medical assistants, home health aides and others whose education amounted to a three month certificate from DeVry are not nurses.
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« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2014, 10:53:36 AM »

Most of the people who call themselves "nurses" aren't Registered Nurses (RNs), who are the only people who should really have the right to call themselves nurses. Nurse's aides, nursing/medical assistants, home health aides and others whose education amounted to a three month certificate from DeVry are not nurses.
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