Zocalo: Is This the End of the Doctor's Office?

At the root of our current healthcare debate lays the irreconcilable interests of consumers, hospitals, and insurance companies. Unfortunately, the complexity of their relations has too often left us, citizens, in the dark. Still, for all the attention placed on healthcare by the press, how to improve low-income access to care has remained an almost taboo topic. Zocalo will not be evading the issue, however, as it focuses an entire night on low-income healthcare. What is the retail clinic, anyway? And is it helping or hurting our communities?

From Zocalo: Critics argue that retail clinics need better regulation and a stronger presence in low-income neighborhoods, and still others suggest that they could be detrimental in instances where patients need more serious attention Zócalo invites a panel of experts -- including Kathleen Billingsley, Deputy Director for the Center for Health Care Quality of the California Department of Public Health; Cynthia Stamper Graff, President and CEO of Lindora, Inc.; Mary Kate Scott, founder and CEO of Scott & Company and a professor of health care business and consulting at USC; and Dev Gnanadev, president of the California Medical Association and chief medical officer at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center -- to discuss the retail clinic's unique model of care and its implications for doctors, insurance companies, and consumers.

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