October 12th, 2009 9:43 am
Medicare for All, Except the Mayo Clinic
President Obama loves the Mayo Clinic. President Obama loves Medicare. But the Mayo Clinic doesn’t love Medicare.
The Arizona Republic reported on Friday that,
One of the Mayo Clinic’s two family-medicine practices in Arizona soon will stop accepting Medicare, leaving thousands of patients to pay out of pocket for routine doctor’s visits or find a new physician. … Hospital officials called the new policy a ‘two year pilot program’ and said Thursday that the changes are necessary because of low Medicare reimbursement rates.”
Does anyone recall that one of the provisions of “health care reform” is to reduce Medicare reimbursements to doctors even further? Medical insurance that doctors won’t take just doesn’t seem like a healthy reform.
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