This item popped on Memeorandum. The Washington Times reports that no less an institution than the Mayo Clinic has blasted the House health care “reform”.
A world-renowned clinic that President Obama held up as an example of good medicine said Monday that the American people would be “losers” under the House’s health care proposal, joining the growing chorus of critics the Obama administration is trying to fend off as the debate intensifies from Capitol Hill to Main Street.
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.”
The usual suspects on the left will doubtless shriek that the WT is a right wing rag. So how about Information Week?
No less a revered, tech-savvy institution than the Mayo Clinic has come out swinging against President Obama’s national healthcare agenda. “The real losers will be the citizens of the United States,” warns the clinic’s official blog. The problem: The plan fails to employ data to gauge whether publicly-funded providers are earning their money or operating Dickensian patient mills.
The Mayo Clinic lauds the idea of healthcare insurance for all, but it believes that the current plan before Congress would simply extend Medicare’s vast inefficiencies and failures to the wider public. “In general, the proposals under discussion are not patient focused or results oriented,” states the Mayo Clinic, in a post on its Health Policy Blog that appeared last week.
Or, heck, why not the Mayo Clinic itself:
In general, the proposals under discussion are not patient focused or results oriented. Lawmakers have failed to use a fundamental lever – a change in Medicare payment policy – to help drive necessary improvements in American health care. Unless legislators create payment systems that pay for good patient results at reasonable costs, the promise of transformation in American health care will wither. The real losers will be the citizens of the United States.
The Mayo Clinic has every reason to want the health care system reformed – and they are not seeing that happening under the plan Obama and the Democrats are preparing to ram down America’s throat.
That should tell you an awful lot of awful things about those plans. The fact that Congress will exempt itself and all Federal employees – who all work for you on your dime – from the plan should really tell you everything you need to know about it.
Kill ObamaCare before it kills you.
No wonder. There are provisions in the health bill that make it illegal for hospitals to expand without government approval. Money paid to doctors will be regulated by the government. You can practically forget about experimental treatments. How many people are going to want to go into the medical profession and be, for all intents and purposes, working for the government?
Social Security is going to break the federal government and their answer is a mechanism by which they can greatly reduce the population of old people.
The stuff that is in that bill is just amazing. this blog is a good start.
It just goes on, I can’t bear to read all the crap in that bill.
And another thing … very few people who are without insurance are without insurance for very long. Most “uninsured” are simply “between” policies. Most are people who are unemployed who will be insured when they go back to work. So there might be some millions of people uninsured, it isn’t the same millions this year as it was last year. If you want to address the people who are chronically uninsured, look at those chronically unemployed and illegal immigrants.
This notion that we must bring EVERYONE into a big government program that gives Uncle Sam direct access to our bank accounts in order to cover a really small portion of people as a subterfuge to getting rid of old people through rationing of care is just plain nuts.
If the power to tax is the power to destroy, then power over health care is power over life and death. Think about it.
Let Obama take over health care, and get ready for a homegrown version of the GULog Archipelago. Coming Soon to a Show Trial near you.