Worksite Clinics
On Corporate Health Care: An Exchange with Maggie Mahar
03/28/08
In a response to my article on the emergence of corporately-run worksite clinics, Maggie Mahar argues against for-profit health care, and I clarify my position.
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Rebuilding the Medical Home: What Walgreens Surely Sees
03/27/08
In March 2007, Walgreens suddenly acquired the two largest worksite clinic firms. Combined with their convenience care clinics, this gave them more than 500 primary care sites nationally. They estimate that there are 7,600 employer campuses in America with 1,000 or more employees onsite. Is this the beginning of the true corporatization of primary care. And if corporations come to own primary care's referral base, can't they capture all of health care?
