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Walgreens offers free health consultations to recently unemployed

Monday, April 20th, 2009 | Health Care | Permalink | No Comments |

Retail clinic offers free care to recently unemployed:

The Walgreen Co. and its subsidiary Take Care Health Systems are offering free care at all 342 Take Care Clinics through the end of the year for patients who have lost their jobs and their health insurance.

However, the deal comes with conditions that address the struggles of getting people into the door outside of evenings and flu and cold season.

The Take Care Recovery Plan offers unemployed, uninsured people free care from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday. The offer extends to families, dependents and same-sex domestic partners of those who have lost their jobs and benefits after March 30.

The company admits the weekday hours are low-volume times, but says it is looking at that low-volume time as an opportunity to address a need. Critics, however, view it as a way to get customers in the door, with the hope that they spend money on other things.

No doubt that’s how Walgreens is justifying it as a business case, but this could still help some people. If you get a prescription it definitely pays to compare Walgreens prices to Wal-Mart’s.

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De-pression tax preparation: free tax prep at Wal-Mart

Saturday, February 14th, 2009 | Economics | Permalink | No Comments |

Wal-Mart in co-operation with The United Way is offering free tax preparation for people making less than $56,000 per year. To find out where and when the mobile tax vans will be in your area, visit myfreetaxes.com.

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