US Healthcare

  Our politicians do not learn from history, even our own. House Bill 100 ("New Mexico Health Care Access Wins Final Approval," Los Alamos Post, Feb 19) just passed is touted to "increase[s] access to high-quality health care."Sadly, this is not true. HB 100 will provide additional funds ("tools") to BeWellNM, New Mexico's ACA-created health insurance exchange, which provides subsidies to New Mexicans who make too much money to qualify for Medicaid and too little to afford private insurance and/or do not have employer-supported health coverage. Full closure: From 2013 to 2019, I was the "Consumer Advocate" onBeWellNMBoard of Directors. I support its mission to improve access to care, not merely insuring more people. Both our state representatives and the governor conflate the words insurance and access, implying they are the same. They most certainly are not! Read more... Visit “ Fixing US Healthcare ” for more Info!!  

There are so many compelling narratives about healthcare, people simply can't distinguish truth from falsehood. Without knowing the facts about healthcare, we cannot fix it. Following are five examples of commonly accepted wisdom that are bogus, myths, and one true narrative. When you accept that Washington is the cancer in healthcare, the cure becomes clear, obvious, and politically unacceptable (to the Beltway). To fix healthcare, We the Patients need to kick Washington out so we can decide for ourselves, in our states, what healthcare structure works best for us. Washington's one-size-fits-all ... does't. The true narrative is StatesCare, the one and only effective "fix" for healthcare: Eject Washington from healthcare. Let We the Patients decide their care and their spending. Read More:  bureaucracy in healthcare Visit “ Fixing US Healthcare ” for more Info!!

When the CoViD-19 (Corona Virus Disease, 2019) first broke out, there was little-to-no data. Without factual evidence, medical advisers had to depend on mathematical models such as the  MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis  from the Imperial College in London. With an estimate of more than 2 million American deaths, a draconian response was instituted with a nearly-complete cessation of social and commercial interactions. Most people are now functioning under a lock-down, travel ban, and infringement on civil liberties analogous to martial law. With five months data since the virus was identified in Wuhan, and with the entire globe focused on one subject only, there are now reams of data on CoViD-19, from its genome to its behavior and clinical consequences as well as daily reports of infected cases and deaths. With volumes of evidence now available, it is time to reconsider what we are doing. A cost/benefit analysis can help advise whether we should stay t...

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...

After describing machine and complex adaptive systems, we define a thinking system with two unique, defining characteristics: having goal(s) separate from survival and the capability to innovate purposefully. Thinking systems always learn and are the only systems that can structure their own learning. Healthcare is a paradigm of a thinking system and is repeatedly plagued with unintended, adverse outcomes particularly after fixes that fail. Systems thinking can dissolve such dysfunction in healthcare and by extension in any thinking system. Specific recommendations follow from this rationale. In the broadest sense, the thesis of this article is that our society must move beyond the industrial revolution and embrace the implications of living in an information age.  Unfortunately, our mental models, organizational structures and management philosophies are shackled by Newtonian (linear) ideation, assembly line mentality, as well as hierarchical, command-and-control attitudes. ...

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

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. 

To get what you want, you must first decide what that is. If you believe media reports on healthcare, the public wants to save money and to have health insurance. Money and insurance are not our primary healthcare desires. What we want is simple and universal: access to timely affordable health care. Federal politicians have been promising to deliver timely affordable care to Americans for more than half a century. Their repeated "fixes" have brought healthcare to its present sorry state-spending too much and not getting care. Having timely affordable care starts with StatesCare: take control away from Washington and return authority where it belongs, We the People in their states. Two benefits will quickly accrue. Read more... Deane Waldman 87176-7396

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!

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. 

You probably already know that our current system is broken and doesn't work. And whether you're a Democrat or Republican, you probably agree that neither party has come up with a solution to make health care more available and more affordable right now. One simple graph explains why U.S. healthcare is impossibly expensive and why our spending is wasteful: federal bureaucracy. Click https://amzn.to/2OWKbLs to learn more!

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How did 13 small colonies of the globe-spanning British Empire become the leader among nations in less than two and a half centuries? Answer: Freedom and its resulting “can do” culture. Freed from government controls and released from class constraints, the “new Americans” believed they could do anything and everything, and then . . . they did. In1825 U.S.A., Alexis de Tocqueville observed that the federal government was not involved in the daily lives of Americans. Entitlements did not exist. Before 1776, Americans were entitled   to whatever the British aristocracy gave to its subjects. In 20 th century Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, comrades were entitled to whatever the Central Committee decreed. Have Americans reverted to become subjects of a new aristocracy–the federal professional political class?   Are we a resurrected proletariat subservient to a totalitarian state? Will we replace freedom and capitalism with socialism and entitlement? If the Democr...

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. First, the evidence of poison, then the antidote.   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. 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 care needed by medically vulnerable Americans. EMTALA (Emergency Medic...