The Mayo Clinic

FYI | ObamaCare is Off to a Bad Start

Jan 4, 2010

by John Goodman

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.

This is stunning on so many levels: the President’s continuing push for a public plan, the belief that Medicare can be used to bend the cost curve, the claim that Washington knows best about what is efficient care and why, the notion that the federal government can use its purchasing power to make all providers as efficient as Mayo…etc.