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January 14, 2008
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino Goes to War Against Affordable Health Clinics
Posted by Dave Blount at January 14, 2008 1:23 PM
When allowed, the free market will provide solutions to most any problem. For example, healthcare costs have been driven through the ceiling, largely as a result of the gargantuan greed of Democrat-backed trial lawyers like John Edwards. Malpractice suits have made the medical profession less appealing, with the result that people sometimes have to wait months to see a doctor. CVS and other retailers have stepped up by opening medical clinics inside their stores.
However, liberals insist that only coercive solutions be allowed. Boston's moonbat Mayor Thomas Menino has launched a jihad against the affordable and convenient mini-clinics. A strong-arm tactic under consideration to keep them out of Boston is forbidding the stores that incorporate them from selling tobacco products. Menino's justification is right out of a speech by Vladimir Lenin:
Limited service medical clinics run by merchants in for-profit corporations will seriously compromise quality of care and hygiene. Allowing retailers to make money off of sick people is wrong.
In the absence of evidence that quality of care and hygiene would be compromised, Menino seems to oppose the clinics only because profit is involved — as with everything in a free economy.
Doctors and hospitals also operate for profit. But Democrats are working to fix that.
On a tip from V the K.
