Minute Clinic Healthcare

For good or bad new approaches to health care delivery have been market-drive over the past three decades. Spritzler (2000) maintains, "HMOs and hospitals, whether 'for-profit' or not, are driven by market competition to keep their costs low and sell their 'product' for as much as the market will bear" (p. 1). This self-interested driver for health care delivery has led to soaring health care costs and diminished care. One such change is the way that the Bush Administration fought for "health saving accounts (HSAs) that cover major medical expenses and catastrophes only (Zdechlik, 2006, p. 1). Typically such options for health care are not available for the poor and working class. Physicians are pressured to choose the bottom line over the

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