Mayo Clinic in Arizona to Stop Treating Some Medicare Patients - Bloomberg.com:
"Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) -- 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. The decision, which Yardley called a two-year pilot project, won’t affect other Mayo facilities in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota."
The reason I'm posting another article about the Mayo Clinic refusing to take Medicare patients, is because the source of the article is Bloomberg and not just a local paper like The Arizona Republic and The News and Observer (NC).
Read it and weep, this is the future of Medicare.
One can only assume that the Health Care Reform bill, no mater what shape it morphs into, will make health care for the elderly worse by siphoning off 1/2 a Trillion from Medicare in order to pay for the monstrosity they call Reform.
I'm hoping the story starts to draw some national attention. As I pointed out in my Nov. 20, 2009 post entitled Mayo Clinic Opting Out of Medicare this is the beginning of a trend, and if the Main Stream Media picks up on this there will be "political hell to pay." The Bloomberg article is dated 12/31/09 making the timing a boon for the proponents of HCR. I scoured the online versions of the MSM outlets today, but the only reference I found was Fox's Gretta Van Susteren's blog GretaWire and it was quite a small blurb, although the comments were interesting. One of the commentators claimed that Mayo has been doing this in Florida since 2002, but I haven't been able to substantiate it as fact yet.
We'll have to wait and see what happens. I hope I'm wrong but my feeling is that no one will notice that a prestigious institution like Mayo Clinic is refusing Medicare patients.
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