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Deane Waldman
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July 29, 2025
Not Cutting or Unwinding, Trump is Refocusing MedicaidMedicaid needs to refocus on the medically vulnerable.
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March 6, 2025
Trump’s medical price transparency EO won’t workInstead of mandating price transparency that won’t work, ask DOGE to investigate dollar (in)efficiency in healthcare.
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January 24, 2025
Biden’s Pardon Confirms Fauci GuiltJoe Biden admitted to the world that Fauci is indictable, if not legally proven guilty, of numerous crimes.
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October 23, 2024
Fascist: Trump, Harris, both, neither?An analysis of candidates’ characters and governance styles reveals that Harris and the Democrats are fascists; there is no comparable evidence against Trump.
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August 22, 2024
Fool Me Twice (Candidate Harris), Shame on MeDemocrats believe they can fool us twice; do not prove them right.
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August 13, 2024
The Remarkable Transformation of Kamala Harris: ‘TGINB’An analysis into the consecration of Kamala Harris.
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January 6, 2024
The Case Against Progressive UtopiaFor the utopian leftist, all actions are permissible, as the end justifies the means.
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October 21, 2023
The latest wrong-headed ‘fixes’ for healthcareRecent proposed solutions for healthcare are what systems thinkers call fixes that fail or backfire.
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September 14, 2023
Reduced drug prices have unacceptable costFixing prices for pharmaceuticals will produce small short-term out-of-pocket savings and a very large, long-term loss for Americans.
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August 26, 2023
Investing in real healthcareThe solution to unsustainable medical spending, insufficient access to care leading to death-by-queue, and denial of freedom is as obvious as it is politically radioactive.
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November 21, 2022
Turnabout is fair play, just not for DemocratsWatch for rage-soaked vitriol in mainstream media claiming that turnabout is not fair play. Democrats will loudly cry "foul" when Republicans behave as they (Democrats) did in the policy arena.
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November 6, 2022
Midterms Offer Chance to Fix the CDC, and WashingtonWe have the opportunity to replace incumbent politicians and bureaucrats with true patriots who will rein in an out-of-control federal government.
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September 20, 2022
The ‘Big Guy’ Resurrects Big Brother NewSpeakIf you pay attention to Democrats, you realize that, as to everything they say about anything, they always mean the opposite.
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June 25, 2022
Entitlement: Indignity, irresponsibility, enslavement, tyrannyProgressives try to bribe the public with government handouts — entitlements. Americans need to be clear about what happens if they accept.
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June 18, 2022
The Dems: 'When Will They Ever Learn?'Democrats seem unable or unwilling to learn that We No Longer Trust Them.
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June 11, 2022
What would it take for the White House to commit treason?There are actions going on behind closed doors in Washington that just might meet the threshold.
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May 11, 2022
Why The Democrats’ Double Duplicity Will FailDuplicity is fundamental to the Democrats’ entire political operation.
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December 25, 2021
Omicron is the final strawThe omicron variant of COVID-19 is the final straw that has destroyed any vestige of public credibility in the Democrat party.
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December 10, 2021
To Fix Healthcare, Restore Americans’ Right to ChooseAmerican healthcare has lost its way. It has become a medical tyranny that takes away personal freedom.
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November 19, 2021
Tools in the service of tyrannyIn progressive hands, COVID, BLM, anti-gun laws, and many others are tools in the service of tyranny.
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November 15, 2021
Beware of Infrastructure Bill signing ceremonyWhen the White House holds a triumphant signing ceremony today for the Biden/Pelosi Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, H.R. 3684, keep the following facts clearly in mind.
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November 1, 2021
Perception Is Not Reality, No Matter What the Liberal Media SayThe media believe they control reality by determining what the public sees or doesn't see.
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October 25, 2021
The Death of Trust in US Institutions, and How to Restore ItIf Americans apply the prescription above, they can restore trust in their government and other great institutions.
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September 18, 2021
Who decides who gets treatment?There is no such thing as "standard" care or medicine that is universally applicable.
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June 25, 2021
Aiming at the Wrong (Public) OptionThere is no question that total federal control of healthcare is the target.
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March 26, 2021
Replacing efficient doctors with effective onesAs long as a third party and not the patient is the payer for health care, efficiency will benefit the third party and hurt the patient.
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February 23, 2021
On Medicaid: Mississippi right, Biden wrongMississippi was right to reject Medicaid expansion, and Biden is wrong to keep pushing it.
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August 18, 2020
Are our children safe to return to school?Strictly speaking, children are not completely immune to infection, but they are, indeed, "almost immune." Most definitely, children are highly resistant to illness and death from the virus.
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July 28, 2020
COVID-19 contradictions must be resolvedThe official narrative about COVID-19 has two fundamental contradictions.
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July 4, 2020
Will Americans Repudiate 1776 in 2020?If Americans vote to accept Democrats’ entitlement promises, history tells us what will happen.
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May 1, 2020
Seesaw effect overturns false health care 'wisdom'Common wisdom teaches that those who have health insurance get the care they need when they need it, and that those who don't have coverage don't get care. As New York and Texas show, it's dead wrong.
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March 12, 2020
Colorado Goes over the Health Care CliffColorado has effectively implemented Bernie Sanders's Medicare for All. How much of a disaster will it be?
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December 27, 2019
Health Care and Dollar EfficiencyThe simple explanation for why the U.S. is spending so much more on healthcare than other nations is growth of the federal healthcare bureaucracy with its attendant costs.
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November 28, 2019
When Health Care Stocks Rise, Patients SufferWhy should patients be smiling when health care stock prices go up?
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September 9, 2019
Federal Complexity: The Bane of Health CareRemove Washington from health care and restore the direct connection between patient and doctor.
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April 28, 2016
Obama Uber AllesApparently, President Obama believes it is time to move beyond the constitutional constraint called separation of powers, an idea he considers outdated, obsolete and certainly not progressive.
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April 9, 2016
Can Bernie Sanders Sell MediCAID-for-All?Bernie Sanders wants to extend no-charge-to-the-patient taxpayer-supported, government-controlled, single-payer health insurance to all Americans.
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October 29, 2015
Direct-Pay USA Cures U.S. Healthcare SystemThe cause of healthcare system sickness is cancer, of the federal bureaucracy. The bureaucracy that is supposed to serve patients and help doctors instead serves only itself.
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May 9, 2015
<em>King v. Burwell</em>: Alternative EndingsAmericans do not like being coerced, which is why the resistance to ACA continues unabated. However, we also do not like having something given to us like subsidies, and then have it taken away.
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March 24, 2015
Medicare Is Doomed -- Save the PatientsThe Medicare Program is doomed, not by Republican vouchers, but by what Washington has done to it over the years. You cannot keep Medicare “as we know it” because that Medicare does not exist and never did.
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March 4, 2015
Reality Always WinsDoes ACA make health care more available and better? All evidence suggests otherwise.
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January 2, 2015
Five Strikes Against Single-payer HealthcareIt is clear that single payer healthcare systems provide neither affordable nor timely health care to the people they serve.
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December 24, 2014
Toolbars in WashingtonWashington doesn't do things the way way the rest of the country does -- not even with keyboards.
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December 8, 2014
Funding the Unfunded MandateSystems thinkers say the best way to “fix” a problem is to dissolve it: change the system so the problem ceases to exist. We can dissolve the unfunded mandate -- by funding it.
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November 22, 2014
What Happened to American Medicine?Americans have been led to believe that health insurance should pay for their health care. Not so. The cancer has intentionally misled us about the function of health insurance, in order to increase our dependence on government.
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October 18, 2014
TLC -- the Washington Version'Theft', 'Lie', and 'Cover-up' is how Washington is how the federal government is accustomed to dealing with health care.
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September 23, 2014
Healthcare: Overserved or UnderservedInappropriate medical care – too much or too little – has become the norm. The problem is the healthcare system itself, whether is it the U.S.’s insurance-based approach, or the single-payer systems of Great Britain or Canada.
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September 13, 2014
In the Toilet' -- British NHS Today; U.S. Healthcare TomorrowWhat is happening in Great Britain’s vaunted in NHS (National Health Service) is of vital interest to Americans.
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August 14, 2014
Seven Reasons why the ACA Pot keeps Boiling OverWhy is there at least as much controversy and outright anger today as there was prior to March 23, 2010?
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June 4, 2014
Single payer is Root Cause of VA DeathsA single-payer healthcare system is a government-run monopoly over health services and goods. The government pays what it chooses, when it chooses. The consumer has no say.
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April 21, 2014
Healthcare MesmerismDeploying a strategy of mesmerism, Washington has tried to convince us that their PPAHCA treatment of poor sick patient Healthcare is a reform, a change for the better.
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February 9, 2014
Healthcare and the Insurance PrincipleWhy Economics 101 will tell you that Obamacare is long-term economic suicide
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December 7, 2013
All too soon, ObamaCare will give us 'Standing'Insured or uninsured, as a direct result of government action, you will be less able or unable to get the care you need in 2014 after ObamaCare implementation.
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November 15, 2013
Medical Ethics and ObamacareCan doctors work under ObamaCare and still be ethical?
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September 7, 2013
Magnitude and Mortality in HealthcareOur healthcare system as it stands has nothing to do with keeping us well. No, it's about keeping bureaucracy healthy.
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June 15, 2013
Mission Not AccomplishedObamaCare advocates are claiming victory before the war's even started.
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April 19, 2013
'Should my daughter be a doctor?'This should have been the easiest question for me, a doctor myself, to answer. It was the opposite.
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February 27, 2013
Cutting Healthcare Costs by Killing PatientsNation-states are now killing people based on their costliness, rather than their place of origin, skin color, religious commitment, political affiliation, or ethnicity.
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February 21, 2013
Is the U.S. Clinically Insane?Taking away your freedom to choose in your best interest?
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February 11, 2013
ObamaCare Shell Game Now ApparentTo solve an ObamaCare-created problem -- more insured patients and even fewer doctors -- California will make things worse.
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January 27, 2013
Malpractice by DecreeNow that Obama has won re-election, he and ACA supporters have stopped pretending that ACA is anything less than takeover of US healthcare by the Washington bureaucracy.
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January 14, 2013
No Wonder Our Horse Won't RunHow could the horse of state be expected to perform when it's weighed down by a thousand-pound ObamaCare jockey?
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December 24, 2012
Please Pass the Kool-aidWhat "costs" more than all the doctors, the drugs, hospital admissions, and wheelchairs combined? Answer: the regulatory healthcare bureaucracy, mostly Federal government but the States as well and more so for those who set up healthcare exchanges.
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November 6, 2012
Vote for Character, Not ColorI am white. I voted for Mr. Obama in 2007, but not because he is black. A black man is just as entitled to be a bad president as a white man, and that is what we got -- a bad president.
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November 2, 2012
ObamaCare: Antithesis of ReformThe Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as "ObamaCare", hurts both We The Patients and our nation as a whole.
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October 17, 2012
ACA: The More You Know, the More You HateEvery expansive promise made by the president for his signature health-care legislation has been shown to be smoke and mirrors.
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October 3, 2012
The Verdict on 'Doctors' Obama and RomneyAre the doctors fit to practice medicine? Or should their licenses be revoked?
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September 9, 2012
ObamaCare: A Shell Game With No PeaThe ACA is the shell game, President Obama is the man with fast hands, and cost reduction is the pea.
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September 1, 2012
Expand Health Care, Not Healthcare BureaucracyHow can we ever fix healthcare if we don't inform people of what's really going on?
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August 13, 2012
Medicare and Medicaid: RIPWhat does Washington do when one of its programs fails? Answer: enlarge it!
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July 27, 2012
Meet Your New M.D.What good is having health insurance if you cannot get the health care you need, when you need it?
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June 12, 2012
Who Will Provide My Health Care?Whom do you want to operate on your heart: a doctor or a bureaucrat?
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June 3, 2012
SCOTUS ObamaCare Decision: Both Monumental and IrrelevantThat decision will have profound policy implications regarding the reach and scope of Federal government. At the same time, it will have little impact on our daily lives in terms of health care.
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May 24, 2012
Will the Real Cultist Please Stand Up!When I see the charge of "cultist" leveled against Republican standard-bearer Mitt Romney, I wonder how to respond when the pot calls the kettle black?
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April 29, 2012
Single Payer Is Not the AnswerWe may want, even pray for, a quick, simple, painless answer to big, hard problems. But the single-payer solution to our health care woes is not as simple or painless as its cheerleaders make it out to be.
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April 3, 2012
A Patient, a Doctor, and Three Burly NursesA patient, whose name is M. Healthcare, enters a doctor's office with two chief complaints: 1) overspending -- both individually and nationally -- and 2) "cannot get health care."
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January 21, 2012
Forest Fires, Earthquakes, the Titanic, and HealthcareHenry David Thoreau wrote that "[a]ll perception of truth is the detection of an analogy." Let's use analogies to comprehend the seemingly incomprehensible: healthcare in the U.S.
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December 17, 2011
We Need Not Repeat 1776The parallels are worrisome, but fortunately we have recourse that our forbears didn't.
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December 12, 2011
Actually, Health Care Costs Are Under ControlThe liberal idea that health care costs are "out of control" is flat-out ridiculous.
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September 21, 2011
All Entitlements Are Not Created EqualThe four big U.S. entitlements are all different. However, in one way, they are absolutely identical.
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March 27, 2011
House Calls Are Cheaper Than Hospital BedsBeing healthy is cheaper than being sick, whatever the cost to stay healthy or to restore health...except our healthcare system and the massive bureaucracy that supports it, actually feeds off illness.
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March 2, 2011
Do You Have a 'Right' to the Internet?What is a right? What rights do Americans have and which ones are we denied?
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February 12, 2011
What's Missing from Healthcare in Rwanda?In a country where the annual per capita income was $510 in 2009, patients get as high quality medical care as we get here in the richest nation on earth. How's that possible?
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January 15, 2011
Are You Liberal, a Liberal, or a Liberalist?One of the left's most venerated tactics is the perversion of language.
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January 5, 2011
You and I Live in the 21st Century -- Health Care Is Back in the 19thThe healthcare system is broken.
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December 16, 2010
Are We Feeling Better Yet?The president's reform of the U.S. health care system is in full swing. Are we feeling better yet?
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November 8, 2010
Don't Repeal ObamaCare, 'Fix' It!Most Americans want ObamaCare repealed and the Republicans have said they would do so. Should they try?
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October 28, 2010
The Fat Lady Remains MuteAssuming that after November 4 it is over for the Democrat majority, there still remains a very big but.
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October 24, 2010
Is U.S. Health Care Truly 'Broken'?There are reasonable people who question whether our health care system is in fact "broken," as opined by President Obama.
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October 19, 2010
'Tax the Rich, Not the Workers' Makes My Blood Boil!The bumper sticker "Tax the Rich, Not the Workers" epitomizes what is presently wrong with America
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October 3, 2010
If Obamacare Is Repealed, What Then?If health care is truly "broken," and if Obamacare is so wrong, what should we do instead?
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September 23, 2010
ObamaCare: Will Someone Please Kill It Before It Kills Us?Will a Republican-controlled Congress repeal HR 3590 before it destroys U.S. health care and depresses the U.S. economy even further?
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August 28, 2010
You're Right, I'm Wrong, Washington Is VenalI wrote here that people in Congress and the White House were magical thinkers. Readers commented that I was wrong. Washington is just plain venal.
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August 15, 2010
The 'Right to Health Care' Can Be the Right to No CareHealth care as a right leads to government rationing of health care.