After spending 8 hours in an emergency room with blood pouring out of my head while everyone with any kind of cold or flu was in front of me, I would say any measure to alleviate ERs is a good measure. I am assuming there will be quality checks by independent sources and that doctors will be following their proper moral codes and not pushing drugs on patients to increase sales. Like previous posters have said the quality really can't be much worse than at the medicentre.
All in all, private clinics are already available so I don't see how this is a huge deal. Basically the only major negative is that it might cut out small pharmacists from the market. For me, however, the major concern is the health care system as a whole. If this can provide any form of efficiency I say go ahead.
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