An article in today’s Washington Post, entitled “Is the Mayo Clinic a Model or a Mirage? Jury is Still Out” highlights Mayo Clinic and similar institutions as part of the national health reform debate.
ROCHESTER, Minn. — The Mayo Clinic looms out of the prairie here like the mecca it has become, a world-renowned medical complex that is often cited by President Obama as his model for national heath-care reform.
“Look at what the Mayo Clinic is able to do. It’s got the best quality and the lowest cost of just about any system in the country,” Obama said in Minneapolis this month. “So what we want to do is we want to help the whole country learn from what Mayo is doing. . . . That will save everybody money.”
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Good article on the ying/yang of the Mayo clinic and how its achieved its vaulted stature. The US is certainly a better place with the Mayo, but can the Mayo be duplicated thousands of times, and each clinic achieve the Mayo’s success. While there are certainly things to learn from the Mayo, the answer is, “probably not”