Wal-Mart to open in-store health clinics

First it was just cheap department stores. Then Wal-Mart tried to expand into banking. Now the world's largest retailer is planning open a chain of co-branded health clinics in hundreds of its stores.

So now will Wal-Mart employees be able to get affordable health care at Wal-Mart clinics?

They need it.

After all, Wal-Mart is notorious for pricing its employee health care benefits so high that most Wal-Mart employees cannot afford to opt in. Instead of providing affordable health care benefits, Wal-Mart refers its employees for public assistance. Let the taxpayers foot the bill to keep the Wal-Mart stock dividends high.

So now Wal-Mart workers in select stores will have a health clinic right there at work.

I hope it helps to fill a need for the workers as well as the low-income public who tend to shop at Wal-Mart because of the low prices.

But you have to love the irony.

Now I wonder if the clinics will be stocked to treat the symptoms of lead poisoning from all the products that Wal-Mart imports from China.