Yesterday's Washington Times posted an article quoting the Mayo Clinic's evaluation of the healthcare reform currently proposed in the House of Representatives.
According to the article:
"Minnesota's not-for-profit Mayo Clinic, which Mr. Obama has repeatedly hailed as offering top quality care at affordable costs, blasted the House Democrats' version of the health care plan as lawmakers continue to grapple with several bills from each chamber and multiple committees.
The Mayo Clinic said there are some positive elements of the bill, but overall "the proposed legislation misses the opportunity to help create higher quality, more affordable health care for patients."
"In fact, it will do the opposite," clinic officials said, because the proposals aren't [R]patient-focused or results-oriented. "The real losers will be the citizens of the United States.""
Some of the problems with the bill include how to fund it, and the fact that in order to make it work, healthcare would need to be rationed. There is also some question as to whether the government controls of what doctors could charge patients might result in fewer people studying to become doctors.
Generally speaking, the healthcare reform bill as currently stated is a bad bill that will result in less care for the elderly of America and higher taxes for all of us. It needs to be scrapped and rewritten.
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