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Along with other walk-in retail clinic chains such as Kroger's Little Clinic and Walgreen's Take Care Health, MinuteClinic is gearing up for an anticipated swell of newly insured people come Jan. 1, 2014, when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is fully implemented.

Sec. 2607 is of concern to advocates of science-based medicine due to the broad scope of practice granted chiropractors, naturopaths, homeopaths, acupuncturists and direct-entry midwives under state law, as well as their over-confident view of themselves and their abilities. As we have previously discussed, for example, both naturopaths and chiropractors fancy themselves as primary care physicians able to differentially diagnose any patient with any disease or condition and, in many cases, treat or "co-manage" these patients.