Mayo Clinic Gives Up on Medicare

As Big Government goes in for the kill on the healthcare industry, here's how things have been working out for the part of it that has already been nationalized:
"TheMayo Clinic, praised by President Barack Obama as anational model forefficient health care, will stop accepting Medicarepatients as of[January 1] at one of its primary-care clinics inArizona, saying theU.S.government pays too little. … Obama in June cited thenonprofit Rochester,Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic and the ClevelandClinic in Ohio for offering "the highest quality care at costs well below the national norm." Mayo's move to drop Medicare patients may be copied by family doctors, some of whom have stopped accepting new patients from the program, said Lori Heim, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, in a telephone interview...