The Pillar Of Health Care Reform Can’t Survive On Medicare Alone
You know things are bad when Obama’s Mayo can’t survive on Medicare. That’s just a travesty. And your democratically controlled Congress wants to expand Medicare for all?
Providers who do fewer unnecessary tests and services are paid the least, and they are the doctors and hospitals which will go out of business first if we don’t change the payment system. For example, here at Mayo Clinic, the cost of providing services to Medicare patients exceeded the total amount paid on behalf of Medicare patients by $840 million in 2008.
It’s quite a quandary we have. Medicare doesn’t pay enough to sustain operating expenses of large hospital systems or small doctor’s offices everywhere.
Yet it is so bankrupt it threatens to destroy the fabric of our country’s economic survival.
That’s one hell of a dilemma we find ourselves in. Good luck Washington. At some point, the Medicare people in this country are going to be in for a rude awakening because either they won’t be able to find a doctor, or they won’t be able to get the pacemaker. It’s going to be one or the other. Which one would you rather have? Perhaps they’ll just get pain pills. Or they’ll have to wait until they turn 75 to get their free medications.
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10 26th, 2009 in
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