Walmart ER! I can't WAIT to hurt myself!

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Originally Posted by dragonrider

The surgeries available at Walmart are not of high quality, but they are very very cheap. You can get better quality procedures at Costco, but you have to buy way more than you want --- who needs a dozen heart bypasses? I can barely get through a quadruple myself. I usually just end up getting most of my surgical procedures at Target when I'm already there picking up toilet paper or something. Except for organ transplants --- I'm willing to pay a bit more and get those at Whole Foods, because I like to know my organs are organic.

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whiskeytango

yeah, go running in to a walmart with blood shooting out or a broken limb and youll give the greeter and the old man in the power scooter a heart attack. the old man falls on the controls and he runs over the tax preparation stand. you spray blood on the 13 rugrats followed by what has to be the largest 4' tall woman youve ever seen on your way. all to have the grease covered highschooler in the medical department passout at the sight and go you into shock as the "doctor" reads a pamphlet to decide his next move

.....lol
db:smokin:

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Originally Posted by SnSstealth

yeah, go running in to a walmart with blood shooting out or a broken limb and youll give the greeter and the old man in the power scooter a heart attack. the old man falls on the controls and he runs over the tax preparation stand. you spray blood on the 13 rugrats followed by what has to be the largest 4' tall woman youve ever seen on your way. all to have the grease covered highschooler in the medical department passout at the sight and go you into shock as the "doctor" reads a pamphlet to decide his next move

.....lol
db:smokin:

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Hahahaha!! I wanna see that.

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Originally Posted by SnSstealth

:S4:Wal Mart!!
WT

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tru dat

Sounds like Mccain trying to come up with more things that he thinks will gain the votes of americans...Fuck him..

Health Care at Schwag-Mart????? Oh Hell NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!

Honestly I think the majority of people in this thread are missing the point due to the fact that he named Walmart disregarding the fact that he said any other large place (meaning where people gather).

Emergency room healthcare is one of the most widely abused systems in the healthcare industry, simply because it is illegal for a hospital to not see you regardless of why you are there.

Have a migraine.. go to the emergency room they'll fix you up with some aspirin right away and can't force you to pay. Sprained your ankle.. Emergency room coming right up; forget about the guy with the knife sticking out his side or the poor kid just just broke 30% of the bones in his body due to a horrific car crash. They'll fix you right up.

Point is this; when people need emergency healthcare there is a long wait for it and an expensive fee; both directly related to the abuse of the system. I know first hand as I deal with a number of people with debilitating diseases that truly need emergency healthcare at times and have to wait upwards of 6-12 hours to be seen.

In addition to this it wastes hospital resources which if you've been to any emergency room you can attest that they seem to be short on said resources (again due to abuse of the system).

Where I live we are starting to put small "Ready" clinics inside of HEB. There you can be seen by a nurse or physician to see you for SMALL issues;

Also the video is way out of context

Here is the full video in it's entirety which makes the proposal of a clinic inside walmart much less loony sounding:

YouTube - John McCain on Health Care and Wal-Mart Clinics

Come on, you're all smart people here. Surely people can put 2+2 together and not jump on the bashing bandwagon when the video was obviously clipped to make him sound like a lunatic. Even in the original posted video you'll notice he says "if you have a cold". Not "if you're 5 seconds near death".

I have a number of friends that use the Ready Clinics here in town and they are great for the purpose that they serve.

I'm sure someone will bash me.. go for it.

I won't deny that McCain is stumbling over his words and sounds a little dumb, but I can connect the dots to see where he was going.

For those of you that don't know.. HEB is a grocery store here in the State of texas.. Thought I'd clarify that.

I'd like to see any funding for that sort of thing actually go to non-affiliated, preferably non-profit, urgent care facilities rather than large for-profit retail entities.

I am a HUGE fan of using the local University's urgent care center, which is NOT an ER, for non-life-threatening but pressing matters such as strep tests, minor stuff that needs stitches, tetanus shots, ear infections, stuff like that. The ER charges me $50 copay... the University charges the same as an office visit, and you get seen within 10-20 minutes. Downside is sitting amongst the undergrads who are all there with alcohol poisoning... tut tut...

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Originally Posted by stinkyattic

I'd like to see any funding for that sort of thing actually go to non-affiliated, preferably non-profit, urgent care facilities rather than large for-profit retail entities.

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I agree with this totally, but being a capitalist nation I don't see this happening; at least not as the norm.

More so I am glad someone would address the abuse in the emergency room at all as this is a widely overlooked problem. Something most people won't talk about since it's a touchy subject.

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I am a HUGE fan of using the local University's urgent care center, which is NOT an ER, for non-life-threatening but pressing matters such as strep tests, minor stuff that needs stitches, tetanus shots, ear infections, stuff like that. The ER charges me $50 copay... the University charges the same as an office visit, and you get seen within 10-20 minutes. Downside is sitting amongst the undergrads who are all there with alcohol poisoning... tut tut...

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I go to the ready clinic for alot of minor services myself as opposed to going to my bloated healthcare clinic that I go to for specialty services. I have a 2 hour wait at these clinics, and only a 10 minute wait at these minor services clinics.

I don't care if walmart opens up clinics nationwide or if it's the Redcross that suddenly get's a crap load of funding to do this. If we can avoid abuse in the emergency room then I'm all for it; regardless of who does it. Let's save the emergency visits for people who truly need it.

Word Stinkster.. Word!