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Obamacare Will Only Make Health Care Worse: Mayo Drops Medicare

Bloomberg reports:

“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.”

And Mayo’s decision to cut Medicare patients comes before President Barack Obama’s health reform plan would cut $493 billion from the program. As the President’s own Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services warned:

“It is important to note that the estimated savings shown in this memorandum for one category of Medicare proposals may be unrealistic. … providers for whom Medicare constitutes a substantive portion of their business could find it difficult to remain profitable and might end their participation in the program (possibly jeopardizing access to care for beneficiaries).”

The problem is that Obamacare is not real health care reform. All it does is pretend to control health costs by giving more power to Washington to set and control prices. This is the exact opposite direction of what real health care reform would look like.

Tags: Arizona, Mayo Clinic, Medicare, ObamaCare, President Barack Obama

Arizona Moves to Oppose Obama’s Expected Health Reform

CNSNews.com has the latest on Arizona’s ballot initiative, which voters in the state will vote on in November 2010, about whether residents will be subject to mandates in any health care reform legislation from Congress. President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats have promoted mandates on both employers to provide health insurance and individuals to buy health insurance.

The article notes five other states — Indiana, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota and Wyoming — are considering pre-emptive legislative action if mandates come down from the federal level.

Tags: Arizona, employer mandates, individuals