What the Mayo Clinic knows Freep.com Detroit Free Press:
Three goals underscore our nation's ongoing healthcare reform debate: 1) insurance for the uninsured, 2) improved quality, and 3) reduced cost. Mayo Clinic serves as a model for higher quality healthcare at a lower cost.
President Barack Obama, after referencing Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic, advised: 'We should learn from their successes and promote the best practices, not the most expensive ones.' Atul Gawande writes in the New Yorker, 'Rochester, Minn., where the Mayo Clinic dominates the scene, has fantastically high levels of technological capability and quality, but its Medicare spending is in the lowest 15% of the country -- $6,688 per enrollee in 2006.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
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