US Healthcare

Before the Revolutionary War, residents of the North American colonies were subjects of the British crown. They were entitled to as much or as little as the aristocracy allowed. Their living conditions and daily activities were dictated by the government. They paid whatever taxes were arbitrarily imposed by the crown. In 1776, the founding fathers rejected such centralized control and replaced it with a structure that gave primacy-freedom-to the individual. The new Americans were free to make their own choices. They were free to reap the benefits of their decisions and their work. They were entitled to nothing, except opportunity. The policies advocated by current contenders for the Democrat presidential nomination, exemplified by Senator Bernie Sanders, repudiate what the founding fathers did in 1776. Is that really what Americans want? Read More: Fixing US Healthcare You can see Related Article on LinkedIn:  Choose Your Healthcare Visit Deane Waldman for more infor...

Obamacare. The American Health Care Act . The Emergency Medical Transport and Labor Act. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Health Insurance Marketplaces (now called exchanges.) The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act. Medicare. Patient-centric healthcare. The Unfunded Mandate Reform Act. These are some of the ways that Washington has "fixed" our healthcare system. Other than failure, they have one other attribute in common: they're Washington-generated, Washington-in-control. For more than 50 years, the federal government has dominated healthcare using a military command-and-control model. To use a medical analogy, Washington has been the attending physician for a sick patient named healthcare for decades. With all the "treatments" imposed by the doctor-federal government, healthcare has become sicker and sicker, and sicker. Spending on healthcare has more than tripled, rising from 5 percent of GDP in 1960 to 17.8 percent...

Created in 1965 as a medical safety net for “disabled, aged, and blind,”. Medicaid now provides no-charge medical insurance for 74 million Americans.  Has Medicaid been successful in providing for their medical needs or not?  Buy the Book “ Curing the Cancer in U.S. Healthcare "  to understand why healthcare is failing and what can you do to save yourself and your loved ones.  Visit the Website:  Health Insurance in the United States

California may try to create a statewide single payer healthcare system. Bernie Sanders still wants single payer Medicare-for-All for Vermont despite its demise aborning in 2014. Texas wants a free market system. Washington desperately seeks a way out of their healthcare dilemma, especially the imploding Medicaid program. Believe it or not, there is a way to make everyone’s dreams come true. Washington just has to do two things: one fairly easy and one very hard. The easy part is to give each state: (a) a large, fixed amount block grant for Medicaid plus (b) a portion of the state’s federal tax contribution according to how much was spent on healthcare in prior years. The hard part is easy to write but most would say is politically impossible. (I don’t.) Washington should repeal all federal mandates referring to healthcare. Then, let the states to decide how to structure their healthcare both for the medically needy and the general population. Read More... Dr. Deane Wal...

Most people believe the key to getting  health care  is having insurance.  Not true: many people with insurance don’t get care – some die in line waiting for care, especially with government-supplied health insurance.  Buy the Book " Curing the Cancer in U.S. Healthcare "  to understand why healthcare is failing and what can you do to save yourself and your loved ones.

Everyone believes that the purpose of a healthcare system is to get the right care on time to the most people, and everyone is right. Where common wisdom goes astray is the presumption that coverage equals care. Most people think that having health insurance guarantees getting healthcare, i.e., 1. Those who have coverage will get care, and 2. those who don’t have coverage won’t get care. Both statements are wrong. Ever since EMTALA (Emergency Medical Transport and Labor Act) was passed in 1986, U.S. hospitals have cared for millions of sick Americans who have no insurance. Care is provided to those with no coverage at all. Between Medicaid, Medicare, and other public programs, the federal government is by far the largest single U.S. insurer, covering 120 million Americans. Washington has given people the expectation of receiving care when and where they need it. But coverage does not lead to that happy result. In fact, as no-charge coverage has increased, care has gone down...

Healthcare CANNOT be a right! If  health care  becomes patients’ “right,” then providers lose their right to be free. The logic is inescapable. 

To  fix healthcare , we need to reconnect the patient with the doctor with a third party in between.  This “cure” for sick healthcare is called direct-pay health care, or market-based medicine. 

U.S. healthcare is failing: it doesn't deliver timely care and spends money we don't have and can't afford. Can healthcare be fixed? In 2018, the average American family spent $28,166 on healthcare costs. The same year, the U.S. poured $3.65 trillion -the GDP of Germany-into its healthcare system. Despite this incredible outlay, maximum average wait time to see a primary doctor increased to more than four months, and "47,000 veterans may have died waiting for . . . medical care." Two actions will restore healthcare so that We the People can get timely, affordable care. Without doubt, Americans have the need, but do they have will?   Read more... Deane Waldman 87176-7396

In 2018, the U.S. spent $3.6 trillion on  healthcare , an amount equal to the entire GDP of Germany. Where does all that money go?  This video answers that question–you won’t like the answer. 

An efficient doctor spends the least time with each patient. That way he or she sees the most patients.  What you want is an EFFECTIVE physician, one who  restores good health .

Learn how and why the American Healthcare System has "cancer" of the federal bureaucracy. Also, know how healthcare can be fixed–by cutting out the cancer!

Deceptively labeled Medicare-for-All, Democrats’ plan for single payer healthcare, is nothing less than poison–hemlock for healthcare. It will “federalize” our system, what is called nationalization in socialist countries. Medicare-for-All would exacerbate the three basic problems Americans face in healthcare: overspending, un-affordability, and inadequate access. Adding insult to injury, Medicare-for-All, H.R. 1384, is unconstitutional. Calling Sanders’ plan “Medicare-for-All,” is the height of dishonesty. Section 901(a)(1)(A)of H.R. 1384 abolishes the Medicare program and Section 701(d)takes all the money in the Medicare Trust Fund. Medicare-for-All would be lethal poison for US healthcare. It runs afoul of American founding principles as well as the U.S. Constitution. Washington has been fixing US healthcare for more than fifty years. Their “fixes” have brought us to the current brink of disaster. Medicare (1965) will be insolvent by 2026. Medicaid (1965) fails to deliver c...

When it comes to our health care, we all want the same thing: the care we need, when we need it from people we choose at a price we can afford. Americans are confused about how to achieve this.  Why must all Americans have the same healthcare structure? If Californians want a single-payer system, if Texans want market-based medicine, and if New Yorkers want Obamacare, why should Washington say no to 86 million Americans? In this book, you’ll discover:  Washington and insurance companies practice more medicine than doctors. What we can do to cure the cancer devouring our healthcare system. Why  StatesCare  is the answer to our healthcare nightmares.  How a market-based healthcare system with safety net can work for all Americans.  Buy the Book  to  save money and restore your freedom to choose your healthcare. 

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