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Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) -- 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.
More than 3,000 patients eligible for Medicare, the government’s largest health-insurance program, will be forced to pay cash if they want to continue seeing their doctors at a Mayo family clinic in Glendale, northwest of Phoenix, said Michael Yardley, a Mayo spokesman.
This hardly needs commentary, but it might need
a generalization by Victor Davis Hanson to put it in full, glorious context.
So if he (Obama) seems bewildered, angry sometimes, and more at home in warm, lush Hawaii, you would be too — once you discovered that your easy fantasies and winged rhetoric of the last thirty years have no relation with the here and now.
Anyone want to make some Sarah Palin jokes now? After all, she's just a dumb bimbo who ran a private business and was governor of a state where they balanced their budgets and negotiated deals with oil companies. Good thing we've got the brilliant Ivy League academic as president.
The Trotskyite wreckers at the Mayo clinic will be harshly dealt with. The Stakhanovite spirit of such organizations as ACORN will be well rewarded. Perhaps in the future, we will refer Medicare patients to ACORN.
ReplyDeleteJeff, that would certainly be poetic if cruel.
ReplyDeleteI wish they'd let my mom and dad loose on the budget-- dad is good at planning ahead, and mom has a VERY good ear for "I want more money" BS as opposed to "this will help our goal" BS. (all funding requests are spoken in BS, I fear.....)
ReplyDeleteFoxfier - I'll vote for that.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of Bill Buckley's thought: "I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University." (i.e., regular folks vice Ivy Leaguers).