This is just the start of Obamacare. Mayo Clinic dumps Medicare for over 3,000 patients.

With Medicare payments so low in some States
watch for this action to spread. The State I live
has had some of the worst Medicare reimbursments
to doctors for years. Very few doctors in our region
will take any new Medicare patients, some have had
to let long time patients go due to the poor Medicare
repayment structure.

Please Pass the Mayo
Joesph Ashby American Thinker


The train wreck that is Obamacare just added another stop on its route.
Bloomberg is reporting on a Mayo Clinic announcement that the medical
care  provider will drop thousands of Medicare patients from its
Glendale Arizona clinic.


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.
The decision, which Yardley called a two-year pilot project, won’t affect
other Mayo facilities in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota.

Obama in June cited the nonprofit Rochester, Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio for offering “the highest quality care at costs well below the national norm.”

The article goes on to explain that the Mayo’s nationwide operation lost $840 million in 2008 treating Medicare patients. All this before Obamacare takes hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicare funding.

The point is not that Medicare is underfunded per se, but rather that government intervention into the insurance and medical care markets has been disastrous. As each year passes, the magnitude of that disaster increases. Obama’s health care overhaul will accelerate the process exponentially.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/01/please_pass_the_mayo.html

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