Post #231,025
10/26/05 2:20:38 PM
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Walmart wants to cut costs
[link|http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/26/business/26walmart.ready.html?hp&ex=1130385600&en=311481941719e52b&ei=5094&partner=homepage|http://www.nytimes.c...&partner=homepage]
"Among the recommendations are hiring more part-time workers and discouraging unhealthy people from working at Wal-Mart. "
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"The memo voices concern that workers with seven years' seniority earn more than workers with one year's seniority, but are no more productive. "
Maybe the vending machines could dispense carrots, etc in the cafeteria.
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Post #231,030
10/26/05 2:48:16 PM
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But everyone knows a new WalMart in your town brings jobs
Ms. Chambers acknowledged that 46 percent of the children of Wal-Mart's 1.33 million United States employees were uninsured or on Medicaid. Okay, so they're shit jobs, but whaddaya want from them? ===
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Post #231,036
10/26/05 3:19:07 PM
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one bright note, put clinics in their stores
a fresh out of med school doc, pay him 17.50 hr part time, hire 3. Young docs seeking second jobs and hacks could do a lot of clinical scut work for the employees at low cost. This could be supplemented by servicing the lowhanging fruit rather cheaply. Applying their business model to the medical field, they do it for vision currently, why not move into bloody noses, colds and hemmaroids.
thanx
bill
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Post #231,039
10/26/05 3:58:53 PM
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Yeah, bright note
Your reasons sound okay. But note theirs: cut down on emergency room visits. Do that many people get hurt each day that they can make significant savings by having on-site triage?
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Post #231,045
10/26/05 4:40:14 PM
10/26/05 4:42:54 PM
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Not quantity, but WHEN
After work, clinic is closed... Go to ER.
Local Target Greatland has a "minute clinic" already. For the "colds, sore throats, bumps and bruises, and other minor ailments". No appointment needed.
I'd love to cut down on my ER/UC runs for my wife. She never calls during work to complain, but waits until after I've been home for a couple of hours. By then, if she needs to be seen, it's a trip to the ER, again. (ER staff knows her by name)
A good friend will come and bail you out of jail ... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"
Edited by jbrabeck
Oct. 26, 2005, 04:42:54 PM EDT
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Post #231,078
10/26/05 6:08:26 PM
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And ER *is* the "Doctor's Office" for many.
Many of our vaunted physicians just can't treat patients for the lowly sums they are awarded by Medicaid. Many poor and working poor people take their children to the ER for ear aches because the frickin' physician class *refuses* to see their kids once they find out they're on Medicaid.
That could be fixed immediately, of course, if a federal law stated that a physician loses his license lifetime for refusing to treat a patient because of a patient's inability to pay him/her on a scale that allows them to maintain their beach house in CA or FL, the ski chalet in Aspen their kids private schools, their club memberships, etc. But that would be a sea change - no longer would it be the case that one pursued an MD to make a few million; the motivation would be to actually help people. For vast majority in that field, that would be completely intolerable.
bcnu,
Mikem
It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
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Post #231,055
10/26/05 5:23:39 PM
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Won't work at that price point
Until a doctor has a medical license, they cannnot practice medicine.
Once a doctor has a medical license there is plenty of "moonlighting" temp work available. Depending on what you're studying to be, this generally pays in the range $60-100/hour.
If you are trying to avoid going to residency but have a license, HMOs will hire you full-time for, I think, closer to $40-50/hour. They also provide benefits.
In short the supply of doctors who legally can practice is so low that you can't treat them that badly.
If Walmart wanted to do what you suggest, they would need to focus on things which a nurse or physician's assistant can do, not an MD.
Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #231,065
10/26/05 5:40:41 PM
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One "entry-level" job seems to be urgent care
Those things are multiplying all over the place.
Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #231,080
10/26/05 6:46:02 PM
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Maybe I was thinking PA
ws in an urgent care joint paid cash $50 for the visit, Guy I thought he said he was a doc told me he was working for $17.50 an hr to pay bills (now I remember) he was waiting for his Alaska License to come in. He was Licensed in Washington State. Must have been a PA position. Wrapping sprains and handing out zpak's is about right for a PA.
thanx,
bill
"the reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is that they think conspiracy means everyone is on the same program. Thats not how it works. Everybody has a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebodies wife" Gus Vitelli
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Post #231,076
10/26/05 6:01:52 PM
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Better served by Nurse Practitioners.
bcnu,
Mikem
It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
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Post #231,041
10/26/05 4:07:04 PM
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But wants other people to pay more
[link|http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=3194|American Chronicle] Senator Kennedy issued the following statement in response to Wal-Mart's decision to call for an increase in the minimum wage:
"I was pleased to hear that Wal-Mart CEO, H. Lee Scott, Jr. called on Congress to raise the minimum wage. When even the head of Wal-Mart, one of the most anti-worker companies in the world, says that a minimum wage of $5.15 an hour is out of date, we know it\ufffds long past time for an increase. The CEO of Walmart just called for an increase in the mininum wage. This was the only link I could find that mentioned the request. I guess they figure the increase in their cost will be more then offset by the increase in what their customers will have to spend. Jay
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Post #231,042
10/26/05 4:26:44 PM
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That was mentioned in the article at the top of this thread
The memo said that other companies need to pay more so that their (WalMart's) employees will be more willing to leave before they get enough seniority to expect more pay.
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Post #231,100
10/26/05 10:00:46 PM
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In the race to the bottom - we're passing all our peers.
Right after VisiCalc let you plug in the profits and start changing the other boxes, our earliest wet-behind-ears new MBAs began angling for that corner office via brilliant papers to the CIEIO. Essays advocating the commoditization of employees, changing to part-time - and moving 'personnel' onto the Debit side of the ledger - appear to have resonated with those Next-quarter-only executives, like 'ol Chainsaw.
(Now where's that chart which shows CIEIO / drone pay ratios, from the '70s to now?)
Bizness has been Efficient in adopting these 'innovative' ideas, if in little else.
(And I note that there is still no general awareness of any need to balance the societal/infrastructure contribution to all that skimmed wealth - with appropriate biz tax rules, so long overdue.)
Why.. such a reform might even keep that Ad-fodder sufficiently-able to buy the stuff our now Remarketing Caste *must* move. Damn - that would even be Logical, but -
I suppose it will be another Vietnam, Iraq redux; wait for so much deterioration that revolution is the only resort. I'd bet $$ on that non-solution; it's become a habit. Dysfunctional are we.
Maybe we just aren't ready for self government? Some adolescents need more than 200 years to mature; die before ever becoming adult, actually..
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