This blog has been established as part of the 2008 Mayo Clinic National Symposium on Health Care Reform, to provide a place for continuing conversations about the issues raised, and to offer an opportunity for those who can’t participate in person to still join the discussion.
This post
provides more background on the Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center, and how this blog will be used. The symposium kicks off early Monday morning, March 10, 2008. Live streaming video of the general sessions will be available, and we will an open thread for you to share your comments. Watch this space for links and details. I also will be live-blogging the event and inviting your comments on the summaries. Please feel free to contact me with any questions about how to engage in the discussion.
Lee Aase, Manager, Syndications and Social Media,Mayo Clinic
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I am attending the symposium and it is great to see many briliant minds at work trying to make a difference keep up the work
Hats off to the Mayo Clinc and their Health Policy Symposium. This was one of the most refreshing health care policy symposiums that I have been to in the past 30 years. We started CodeBlueNow! nearly five years ago out of my total frustration with the quality of the health care reform debate in this country.
While the Mayo Clinic may have come to some solid conclusions about what their members and colleagues want in health care reform, what was so refreshing to me is that they were not pushing any agenda down people’s throats and were very committed to listening to what the attendees have to say.
I think we are seeing a sea change in the health care reform debate that is different from the debate I have followed over the past 30 years. New visions and new voices are emerging, which for the first time is reaching out to the public.
The public is the only group that has been consistently been left out of refrom since the get go–since the first report on health care reform: The Committee on the Cost of Medical Care in 1932.
Consistent themes have continued over time. The challenge is–we have left the health care system to the industry stakeholders, when it is you and I, the American public who are the only voters who can give politicians their jobs. That’s why we need to find common ground and build consensus together, so we can have reform vs. more endless debate.
Congratulations and thanks to the Mayo Clinic for being a fresh voice in a public reform debate.
Kathleen O’Connor
Founder and CEO
CodeBlueNow!
I was a Mayo patient, but when my health insurance was changed to a Medicare Advantage plan, Mayo would not accept it. Your meeting re universal health care has no meaning unless Mayo will accept Medicare Advantage plans. Mayo seems to accept patients who cannot pay, but not MA plans. Please reconsider accepting MA plans. Thank you.