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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: TideGlider who wrote (81729)3/29/2010 11:17:56 AM
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We must all ignore Kenneth's radical agenda and look at reality and the truth instead. Mayo clinic has dropped medicare patients at one location to test the ramifications before doing so nationwide...should they be what they expect...they have no other choice under current pricing. And, this is before the new major cuts that are only out there for the administration to promote bogus numbers.

Why would an institution renowned for providing health care of “the best quality and the lowest cost’’ choose to sever its ties with the government’s flagship single-payer insurance program? Because the relationship is one it can’t afford. Last year, the Mayo Clinic lost $840 million on its Medicare patients. At the Glendale clinic, a Mayo spokesman told Bloomberg News, Medicare reimbursements covered only 50 percent of the cost of treating elderly primary-care patients. Not even the leanest, most efficient medical organization can keep doing business with a program that compels it to eat half its costs.

In breaking away from Medicare, the Mayo Clinic is hardly blazing a trail. In 2008, the independent Medicare Payment Advisory Commission reported that 29 percent of Medicare beneficiaries – more than 1 in 4 – have trouble finding a primary-care doctor willing to treat them. A survey by the Texas Medical Association that year found that only 38 percent of the state’s primary-care physicians were accepting new Medicare patients.
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