The Mayo Clinic, praised by President Barack Obama as a national model for efficient health care, will stop accepting Medicare patients as of tomorrow at one of its primary-care clinics in Arizona, saying the U.S. government pays too little.
More than 3,000 patients eligible for Medicare, the government’s largest health-insurance program, will be forced to pay cash if they want to continue seeing their doctors at a Mayo family clinic in Glendale, northwest of Phoenix, said Michael Yardley, a Mayo spokesman.
Didn't I hear several folks mention that this might happen if ObameloseidCare passed?
Death panels, anyone? Beuller?
And here's a bit about how much money Mayo is losing by accepting gubmint rates for Medicare patients:
It lost $840 million last year on Medicare, the government’s health program for the disabled and those 65 and older, Mayo spokeswoman Lynn Closway said.$840 Million?! The GOP wasted more than that on that traitorous wench Scozzafava.
No big deal.
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