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Choose Your Medicine! Person or Population? by Dr. J. Deane W. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy What medicine do you want: person or population? Person medicine starts with you and your doctor discussing what is the best care for you. After considering long- ... Read on »

Single Payer NOT the Answer by Dr. J. Deane W. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy We may want, even pray for, a quick, simple, painless answer to big, hard problems. Our brains know that will never happen. Still, we let our emotions dictate our e ... Read on »

A patient, a doctor, and three burly nurses by Dr. J. Deane W. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy March 23, 2012 marked the two-year anniversary of President Obama’s signing into law of the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (PPAHCA, now shortened t ... Read on »

Healthcare’s Raison d’Etre by Dr. J. Deane W. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Whether you are fixated on newspapers, addicted to radio, or mesmerized by TV, you get the same clear, unambiguous message: what we want healthcare to do is to cut co ... Read on »

An 800-Pound Invisible Gorilla, and Healthcare by Dr. J. Deane W. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy There is an 800-pound gorilla sitting on healthcare, and it is invisible. Truthfully, it is highly visible, but we choose to ignore it. The gorilla is made ... Read on »

What If Football ‘Competed’ Like Healthcare? by Dr. J. Deane W. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy A recent online article claimed, “ Competition hasn’t work in health care .” With respect, the author is completely off base. Real, effective competition has never ... Read on »

Cutting Costs Doesn’t Cut Costs by Dr. J. Deane W. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Everyone is talking about healthcare – talking, but not communicating. To communicate successfully, we first need a common language. In healthcare, people don’t ... Read on »

…And A Liberal Dose of Snake Oil. by Dr. J. Deane W. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Sick things – whether people or systems – need cures, not sedation, not palliation, and certainly not snake oil. The Medicare program was sedation. It lulled us i ... Read on »

Forest Fires, Earthquakes, Tumors, Titanic, & Healthcare by Dr. J. Deane W. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Henry David Thoreau wrote that, “All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.” Let’s use analogies to comprehend the seemingly incomprehensible: hea ... Read on »

Health Care Costs Are In Tight Control by Dr. J. Deane W. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Economist Robert Samuelson has declared that health care costs are “out of control.” Though one hesitates to disagree with a widely syndicated columnist, Samuelson ... Read on »

Town Hall Meeting, 12/8/11 by Dr. J. Deane W. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy A town hall meeting was held about healthcare at the Albuquerque Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico. The meeting had two parts. • First, there was a screeni ... Read on »

Hopefully, We Need Not Repeat 1776. by Dr. J. Deane W. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The parallels are worrisome, even frightening. In many ways, people now living in the United States of America have returned to circumstances of our revolution ... Read on »

Why you can’t find a doctor or nurse by Dr. J. Deane W. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Do you wonder why you cannot find a doctor or nurse to care for you? If you are one of the 15% of Americans who are uninsured, you assume it is your lack of he ... Read on »

The Healthcare So-Called Market and “Occupy Wall Street” by Dr. J. Deane W. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Deane Waldman MD-MBA is Adjunct Scholar for the Rio Grande Foundation, and the author of “Uproot U.S. Healthcare” as well as “Not Right! (January 2012). E.D. Kain ... Read on »

Semantic Perversion à la Washington by Dr. J. Deane W. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy “It is just a semantic difference” generally implies a meaningless academic argument over words, a distinction without significance, such as saying someone is ... Read on »

All Entitlements Are Not Created Equal by Dr. J. Deane W. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Entitlement means, “having a right to something.” You do not need to qualify for an entitlement or pay for one either. People tend to lump together the major e ... Read on »

Who’s “cost-shifting” now? by Dr. J. Deane W. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Everyone agrees that healthcare spending is out of control and the cost spiral is unsustainable. The cure for this sickness seems, however, elusive. Recen ... Read on »

Nanomanaging healthcare by Dr. J. Deane W. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In its 8/6/11 Editorial, the Albuquerque Journal quite rightly took the New Mexico legislature to task for considering taking sides over a dispute about the pr ... Read on »

The Curse of Electronic Health Records by Dr. J. Deane W. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Imagine that you promised your child a shiny new toy for her birthday, one that would put a smile of delight on her face. When it arrives, the price is triple what yo ... Read on »

“When will we ever learn?” by Dr. J. Deane W. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In the words of Pete Seeger, “ When will we ever learn? ” Washington sells us snake oil and oblivious, we just keep right on buying. A recent (6/8/11) news ... Read on »

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