The DI stumbles upon a killer quote from Curaquick:
Despite concerns, the convenience of grocery-store health care appeals to average families on busy schedules and the underinsured alike, Burow said.
"I am from rural Iowa, and I have family who all work full-time without benefits," the co-founder said. "I was watching family members not be able to afford to get sick."
More proof that despite the convenience, Curaquick is a symptom of a disease, rather than a cure:
Curaquick is part of a growing retail-based clinic industry. Hundreds of similar clinics are opening across the country in supermarkets, department stores, and pharmacies...
We need a far more systematic solution to the crisis of Americans with no health care than grocery store walk-in flat fee clinics. Maybe the delivery mechanism is OK - despite Iowa City's fine hospitals, folks with minor ailments may not need that level of care. But at minimum wage in the Wal Mart, Check-N-Go world, the $40 flat fee may as well be $4000. As the middle and upper class discuss the relative merits of sales taxes "for the kids", they often do so without the real knowledge that in the poverty economy, folks are very often living day to day and penny to penny.
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