Mayo Clinic CEO Denis Cortese told the Wall Street Journal this week that building a public option health plan on the Medicare payment model would be a "catastrophe" for health reform. He's making the rounds arguing that such a choice would do nothing to change Medicare for the better and nothing to squeeze costs from the healthcare system as a whole. Article [1]
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[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/07/22/mayo-clinic-ceo-medicare-payment-model-is-a-catastrophe/