The Mayo Clinic has hospitals in Rochester, Minnesota; Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona; Jacksonville, Florida; Abu Dahbi; and an outpatient clinic presence in dozens of locations across a number of different states and countries, including London. 

 

 

It’s a “non-profit organization committed to clinical practice, education and research.” It has $16.3 billion in revenue, $15.7 billion in expenses with an operating income – what would be called profit if it was a for-profit — of $595 million in 2022.  The budget for the State of Rhode Island, for 1 million people, was $15.1 Billion in 2022. The Minnesota budget for 2022 was $60 billion, for 5.7 million people, by comparison. 

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In the United States, we have a health care market, not a health care system that provides the same set of essential services to all Americans.  We’ve all gotten used to that – it makes for health care that is confusing and impersonal.  But most of us can’t figure out how to change it, so we suck it up and take what is dished out, and are grateful that emergency rooms exist to pick up the slack, so that most of us don’t die from trivial injuries or dread diseases, most of the time.  

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