BOSTON'S MAYOR: SOCIALIST BUREAUCRACY MORE IMPORTANT THAN PUBLIC HEALTH

Boston's Democratic liberal Mayor Menino demonstrates why lefties are such dangerous phonies.

Mayor Thomas M. Menino embarked on a highly public campaign yesterday to block CVS Corp. and other retailers from opening medical clinics inside their stores, an effort that exposed a rift between Menino and the state's public health commissioner, a longtime ally.

Menino blasted state regulators for paving the way Wednesday for the in-store clinics, which are designed to provide treatment for sore throats, poison ivy, and other minor illnesses.

Menino said in a written statement. "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.

Menino urged members of the city's Public Health Commission to consider barring the clinics from Boston. CVS executives said they plan to open 25 to 30 MinuteClinics in Greater Boston before the end of the year, although they have not specified how many of those will be within the city's limits.

The Boston Public Health Commission spent nearly an hour discussing the impending arrival of the clinics and ways they could potentially be stopped.

The panel took no action, but instructed the health agency's attorney to investigate whether it could adopt regulations forbidding stores with clinics from selling tobacco products, forcing them to make an untenable financial choice. The city says 31 CVS stores and 56 other pharmacies in Boston have city-issued licenses to sell tobacco.

MENINO SEEMS TO REGARD PROFITS AS IMMORAL: "Allowing retailers to make money off of sick people is wrong."

Menino proves that socialists are more concerned about maintaining government power than the people.

Corporations like CVS and WALMART (WHO HAVE BEEN DOING THIS SINCE 2005!) can bring affordable care to people BETTER than the government can.

They shouldn't be attacked and burdened with outrageous barriers. They should be encouraged and praised.

Here's WALMART:

Health Clinics to Open in Wal-Mart Stores During Next Three Years

Up to 2,000 Could Open Over Next Five to Seven Years

Click here to download closing keynote address by Lee Scott

WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 24, 2007 – Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. intends to contract with local hospitals and other organizations to open as many as 400 in-store health clinics over the next two to three years, and if current market forces continue, up to 2,000 clinics could be in Wal-Mart stores over the next five to seven years, Wal-Mart president and CEO Lee Scott will say in a speech later today at the World Health Care Congress in Washington, D.C. The clinic program’s expansion is just the latest in a series of moves by Wal-Mart to help implement customer solutions to America’s health care crisis, including the $4 generic drug prescription program, health information technology and participation in a major coalition supporting comprehensive healthcare reform by 2012.

“We think the clinics will be a great opportunity for our business. But most importantly, they are going to provide something our customers and communities desperately need – affordable access at the local level to quality health care,” Scott says.

Scott’s speech at the World Health Care Congress is the closing keynote for the three-day gathering of 1,600 CEOs, senior executives and government officials. His speech focuses on the need for action, instead of ideological bickering and finger-pointing, in order to make quality health care accessible and affordable in America.

“The fact is the time for politics in today’s debate on health care is long past. The time for real and meaningful change has come,”

No one is forced to buy anything from a PRIVATE company; they have to COMPETE for the customer, and this is why services and goods produced in a freemarket always are better than those in a socialist marketplace.

And the service or good is produced without TAXES.

Menino and his comrades on the left fear that corporations will put another chunk of the welfare state out of business. So they attack the private companies - even if it means - as a result - that people get worse care and taxpayers will have huge liabilities which can only be paid with higher and higher taxes.

Menino is just like PM Brown in the Great Britain who last week said that the NHS would have to reduce services in order to save the NHS. The NHS was more important than the people who need healthcare.

Private retirement funds are also better than Social Security.

There is very little that government does better than private enterprise in a competitive freemarket. National Defense is one.

We ought to be encouraging private enterprise to provide more services and goods to all people - especially the blue collar/working class people in the lower income brackets.

CVS AND WALMART DESERVE OUR PRAISE.