{"id":557,"date":"2009-07-30T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=557"},"modified":"2009-07-30T11:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T15:18:00","slug":"what-the-mayo-clinic-knows-freep-com-detroit-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"What the Mayo Clinic knows | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20090729\/BLOG2506\/90729080\/1068\/opinion\/What-Mayo-does\">What the Mayo Clinic knows Freep.com Detroit Free Press<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Three goals underscore our nation&#8217;s ongoing healthcare reform debate: 1) insurance for the uninsured, 2) improved quality, and 3) reduced cost. Mayo Clinic serves as a model for higher quality healthcare at a lower cost.<\/p>\n<p>President Barack Obama, after referencing Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic, advised: &#8216;We should learn from their successes and promote the best practices, not the most expensive ones.&#8217; Atul Gawande writes in the New Yorker, &#8216;Rochester, Minn., where the Mayo Clinic dominates the scene, has fantastically high levels of technological capability and quality, but its Medicare spending is in the lowest 15% of the country &#8212; $6,688 per enrollee in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the Mayo Clinic knows Freep.com Detroit Free Press: Three goals underscore our nation&#8217;s ongoing healthcare reform debate: 1) insurance for the uninsured, 2) improved quality, and 3) reduced cost. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=557\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What the Mayo Clinic knows | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practice-variation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}