{"id":1077,"date":"2009-10-02T17:22:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T21:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2009-10-02T17:30:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T21:30:42","slug":"obamas-mayo-sandwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1077\/obamas-mayo-sandwich\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Mayo Sandwich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama has frequently cited the Mayo Clinic as an example of excellent health care at affordable prices.\u00a0 In July, Mayo criticized part of House \u201chealth care reform\u201d plans.\u00a0 Now, Mayo\u2019s CEO, Dr. Denis A. Cortese, <a href=\"http:\/\/prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/01\/mayo-clinics-chief-finds-congressional-health-debate-heart-breaking\/\" target=\"_blank\">tells <em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a> that \u201che is disgusted with the way Washington is approaching an overhaul of the nation\u2019s health care system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Reed Abelson, Cortese said, \u201cLook at all the time we\u2019re wasting.\u00a0 It\u2019s pretty heartbreaking to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abelson:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Citing Medicare\u2019s track record, Dr. Cortese said he would urge Congress to create a national package of health insurance options modeled after the Federal Employees Health Benefits plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat program allows civil servants to choose from a wide range of insurance offerings, with dozens of health insurers participating.\u00a0 If people want more generous coverage, they have to pay more.\u00a0 The plans are vetted by the government, which also restricts the amount of profit the insurers can make on the basic policies.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read the brief article online, which is slightly different from the print version, go <a href=\"http:\/\/prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/01\/mayo-clinics-chief-finds-congressional-health-debate-heart-breaking\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama has frequently cited the Mayo Clinic as an example of excellent health care at affordable prices.\u00a0 In July, Mayo criticized part of House \u201chealth care reform\u201d plans.\u00a0 Now, Mayo\u2019s CEO, Dr. Denis A. Cortese, tells The New York Times that \u201che is disgusted with the way Washington is approaching an overhaul of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,228],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-mayo-clinic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}