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Saturday, January 2, 2010

I thought health care would be fixed?

From various sources comes this Bloomberg piece on how the Mayo Clinic is going to start turning away some Medicare patients:

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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