Obama touted Cleveland Clinic forced to Slash Budget as the Reality of Obamacare approaches

An Ohio clinic that was touted by Obama while he was speaking on health care reform is now blaming ObamaCare after it was forced to cut $330 million from its budget. 

Fox 8 reports the Cleveland Clinic, which is the largest employer in Northeast Ohio with about 39,000 workers in the region, announced the cuts to its 2014 budget at a meeting Wednesday. 

A spokeswoman for the clinic tells Fox News the clinic is being forced to cut back to prepare for increased costs and decreased revenue under the health care reform law. 

These changes will include offering early retirement to approximately 3,000 employees, reducing operational costs, and then layoffs as needed. 

The clinic says its main priority is to continue to provide a high quality of care during the transition, an attribute that led Obama to tout it in 2009 as an example of what hospitals could be under ObamaCare. 

In a press conference in July of that year, Obama said the Cleveland Clinic is an example of health care that works “well.”

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