While watching the president defending his health reform package on TV today (which is, as we have written in prior posts, an expensive mistake), we found an interesting headline in today’s Wall Street Journal: “Retail Health Clinics Move to Treat Complex Illnesses, Rankling Doctors.”

The Journal writes, “Retail health clinics are adding treatments for chronic diseases such as asthma to their repertoire, hoping to find steadier revenue, but putting the clinics into greater competition with doctors’ groups and hospitals….  The clinics are helping alter the practice of medicine.  Doctors are expanding office hours to evenings and weekends.  Hospitals are opening more urgent-care centers to treat relatively minor health problems.” Read the rest of this entry »