In case you missed the June 24 broadcast, President Obama was on ABC News Primetime discussing health care reform. In a question-and-answer format, the president spent an hour and a half describing his vision for health care in the US. Yet again, he mentioned Mayo Clinic (about twelve minutes in to the program) as a [...]
In an exclusive interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC’s Good Morning America President Obama continued to point to Mayo Clinic as an example of health care that delivers better outcomes at lower cost. The interview precedes a town hall meeting on health care reform being held at the White House on June 24, 2009. Responding [...]
Mayo Clinic is featured in the June 29 issue of Time Magazine in an article called “More Data + Less Care = Lower Cost + Better Health.” Senior Correspondent Mike Grunwald visited Mayo Clinic in late May and spent two days interviewing several Mayo physician leaders, observing a Hospice meeting and visiting a patient.
Grunwald says [...]
Given the attention Mayo Clinic has received from President Obama and from the recent article in The New Yorker for its cost-effective care delivery, I took the opportunity yesterday to interview a member of Mayo Clinic’s health reform team, Raymond Gibbons, M.D. Dr. Gibbons is a national cardiology leader, having served as president of the [...]
President Obama, in a public letter addressed to Senators Edward Kennedy and Max Baucus, referred to Mayo Clinic as offering “the highest quality care at costs well below the national norm.” He went on to write “We need to learn from their successes and replicate those best practices across our country.”
Read the Obama HCR Letter [...]
A featured article in the current issue of The New Yorker compares the health care costs and quality in McAllen, Texas with that of Mayo Clinic, and finds important lessons for health care reform. Here is a sampling:
Americans like to believe that, with most things, more is better. But research suggests that where medicine is [...]
President Obama today, in a speech to Senate Democrats, cited Mayo Clinic as an example of high value, low cost health care. Read the President’s remarks.
The Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center recently submitted responses to the Senate Finance Committee policy options papers on Coverage Options and Transforming the Health Care Delivery System.
The responses are posted on our Web site; see Coverage Options and Improving Patient Care and Reducing Costs.
We encourage you to read our responses and let us know what [...]
