Is The Mayo Clinic A Answer? (health care, Obama, Minnesota, insurance)

[Motion]

Anyone familiar with the Mayo Clinic?

Early in the debate the Mayo Clinic was cited as a model for what health care should be like, but that's a far as it went. Enter the good example.

Why the Mayo Clinic is used as good health care example - Kingsport Times-News Online

[sanrene]

Obama has been touting the clinic as an example of good in the HC industry, unfortunately for obama, Mayo disagrees with obamacare.

Mayo Clinic calls House plan bad medicine - Washington Times

Minnesota's not-for-profit Mayo Clinic, which Mr. Obama has repeatedly hailed as offering top quality care at affordable costs, blasted the House Democrats' version of the health care plan as lawmakers continue to grapple with several bills from each chamber and multiple committees.

The Mayo Clinic said there are some positive elements of the bill, but overall "the proposed legislation misses the opportunity to help create higher quality, more affordable health care for patients."

"In fact, it will do the opposite," clinic officials said, because the proposals aren't [R]patient-focused or results-oriented. "The real losers will be the citizens of the United States."

[delusianne]

Originally Posted by Motion

Anyone familiar with the Mayo Clinic?

Yes! Yes! Check this out!

McAllen, Texas and the high cost of health care : The New Yorker

I hope the Mayo Clinic's business model wont attract a lot of attention from the right wingers during this health ins "debate" -- they'll do everything they can to belittle it and demonize it for its commie ways.

[Okiegirlfriend]

All I know about the Mayo Clinic is it has a great reputation. My brother's tumor was sent to them and they never could identify the type of cancer he had. They could only tell what type it was NOT. My brother died 5 weeks after he was told he had no cancer cells in his body and no cancer markers in his blood. All we know is it was a fast growing non identifiable cancer. Medicare paid for all the testing they could afford and told him NO MORE. I don't know if the last test costing $10,000 would have helped him or not. Medicare refused to pay for that one.

[returningtonepa???]

as for mayo clinic good rep or not--when i went there they would only approve the tests my private insurance would preauthorize--the rest they wanted the cost up front---it is a FOR PROFIT CATERING TO THE WEALTHY SUPER INSURED CLIENTELE!

[oldyeller]

If you want a glimpse of what our health care will become look into the VA which is government run healthcare.

[sanrene]

Or the IHS - just take a peek at the kind of quality care the government doles out to the Indians.