Mayo Clinic Touts Kind Bill

The Mayo Clinic, praised by President Obama and mentioned earlier on the site in several earlier posts, has issued an open letter to Congress touting the Medicare Payment Improvement Act of 2009 introduced by Rep. Ron Kind, a Democrat of Wisconsin. The letter warns many providers are "already approaching a point where they can not afford to see Medicare patients. Expansion of a Medicare-type plan without a method to define, measure, and pay for healthy outcomes for patients will move many doctors and hospitals across this threshold, and ultimately hurt the patients who seek our care. We should not put more Americans into the current unsustainable system."