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Hold the Mayo (Clinic)
On June 3 of this year, President Obama wrote a letter to two Senate Chairmen who, at the time, were working to overhaul the health care system: Senators Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.). In the correspondence, President Obama encouraged them to "ask why places like the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, and other institutions can offer the highest quality care at costs well below the national norm. We need to learn from their successes and replicate those best practices across our country. That's how we can achieve reform that preserves and strengthens what's best about our health care system, while fixing what is broken." A little over a month later, the Mayo Clinic spoke against the House health care bill, which President Obama endorsed, saying "[t]he real losers will be the citizens of the United States." What would President Obama make of the Wall Street Journal reporting that the Mayo Clinic will no longer accept Medicare patients at its primary care clinic in Arizona as part of a pilot program to determine if it should also drop Medicare patients at other facilities serving more than 500,000 seniors?
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