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If You Like Your Insurance . . .
By: Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D
1.5.2010

And so it begins to unravel. The Mayo Clinic — "praised by President Barack Obama as a national model for efficient health care" — stopped accepting Medicare patients as of January 1, "saying the U.S. government pays too little."
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Medicare for All or Medicare for None?
By: John R. Graham
1.4.2010

As 2009 disappeared into the history books, the Mayo Clinic in Glendale, Ariz., (a suburb of Phoenix) stopped seeing Medicare patients for primary care. To be more precise, the Mayo Clinic stopped submitting claims to the federal government's Medicare contractors. Medicare beneficiaries can still attend the clinic: They just have to pay cash.

This will be tough for the patients: Medicare won't reimburse them one penny. Indeed, the law requires the physicians to explain this (in writing) to the patients.
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Would You Like a California Cash Cow or New York Pork With Your Florida Flim Flam?
By: John R. Graham
1.4.2010

California’s recent budget deficits will look bush league relative to the fiscal hurricane that federal health reform will unleash on California and many other states. The problem stems from the expansion of Medicaid, the program for low-income residents, jointly funded by the federal and state governments.

Most observers anticipate that if President Obama does sign a bill this year, it will look more like the Senate bill (an amendment to H.R. 3590), which would pull millions of Americans into government dependency for their access to medical services via an expansion of Medicaid.
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