Might the Fact that 90% of Americans Live Within 15 Miles of a Wal-Mart Help Achieve Universal Health Care?

Authors

William M. Sage, Texas A&M University School of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-2007

Journal Title

University of Kansas Law Review

ISSN

0083-4025

DOI

10.17161/1808.19981

Abstract

The subject of this Essay is the retail medical clinic movement. Retail medical clinics-a few hundred exist at the time of this publication-are typically located in national or regional chains of discount stores, pharmacies, and supermarkets. 1 News articles describing this new phenomenon in American health care tend to examine its viability as a business. The symposium for which this Essay was prepared is devoted to the "Massachusetts Health Plan," that state's pioneering effort (in the current political cycle) to achieve near-universal health insurance for its residents. Accordingly, this Essay situates the retail medical clinic movement in overall "health policy," with particular emphasis on its implications for access to medical care.

First Page

1233

Last Page

1245

Num Pages

13

Volume Number

55

Issue Number

5

Publisher

University of Kansas School of Law

Recommended Citation

William M. Sage, Might the Fact that 90% of Americans Live Within 15 Miles of a Wal-Mart Help Achieve Universal Health Care?, 55 U. Kan. L. Rev. 1233 (2007).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/1711

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