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Mayo Clinic calls provisions of Obamacare so complex, they are unworkable

By SoundOffSister / May 12, 2011 /

An earlier post explained the portion of Obamacare that creates Accountable Care Organizations, or ACO’s.  They are essentially a group of doctors and hospitals and testing services that would form one business entity to take care of all of the medical needs of “assigned beneficiaries”.  In Obamacarespeak, a “beneficiary” is someone on Medicare.  The “assigned”…

Mayo says no to Medicare at Arizona facility

By Jim Vicevich / January 1, 2010 /

My guess is Medicare patients overwhelm this operation simply because it is Arizona, home to retirees. It’s also my guess we will see more of this in areas where the over 65 crowd decided to congregate, whether that’s a region that retirees love to move to (Florida) or where young people have just picked up…