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The Cancer in the American Healthcare System: How Washington Controls and Destroys Our Health Care

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"Expecting Washington to fix healthcare is waiting for cancer to cure cancer."- Dr. Deane Waldman
My Fellow Americans: Are you confused, scared ... or mad as hell about your healthcare? Before you give up in disgust, read The Cancer in the American Healthcare System, and  you'll discover:
  • Why health care is both less affordable and much less available...
  • Where all those trillions of "healthcare" dollars go...
  • Who the real bad guys are...
  • Why Obamacare won't help you... because it can't!
  • How to regain control over your own health care... 
Praise for The Cancer in the American HealthcareSystem
★★★★★ " I truly came out ofit with a deeper understanding of how our government has strong-armed us into believing that it has our best interest at heart...Once I started reading this book, I could not put it down." Karen Spiegel ★★★★★"If I could give this book 10 stars, I would. ... This is by far one of the best books that I have ever read! It is full of information without being dry and confusing. It keeps the reader's attention. This book makes so much sense. ... Dr. Deane Waldman, MD MBA has done a fabulous job at describing what is going on in American Healthcare today." Traci Thompson
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    1681813815
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  3. Publisher
    Sbpra
  4. Publication date
    November 17, 2015
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    6 x 0.82 x 9 inches
  7. Print length
    328 pages
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I wrote The Cancer in the American Healthcare System for one reason: to practice good medicine on a critically ill patient. That patient is a system named Healthcare. 
 
The reason you should read The Cancer in the American Healthcare System is to protect yourself ... from Healthcare! You need to know the truth about the leach we call healthcare and what you must do to get the health care you need when you need it. 
 
Healthcare most definitely is not "there for you!" Read how and why in The Cancer in the American Healthcare System as well as what to do.

About the Author

Interesting data about me; Standard (boring) credentials are below
  • Had tickets to sail on the Andria Doria (sank just before we boarded)
  • Visiting Middle East when 1956 War broke out (not injured)
  • Student in Berlin in 1961 when the Wall went up (not imprisoned)
  • Patched up injured at 1968 Democratic Nat'l Convention (both sides)
  • Visiting Turkey during 2013 "Silent Revolution" (was tear-gassed) 
Specifics 
  • Education/training: Yale (BA, History), Chicago Med (MD), Mayo Clinic, Northwestern, Harvard, and AndersonManagement Schools (MBA)
  • Author: >400 scholarly articles & three books before The Cancer in the American Healthcare System
  • Author, forthcoming e-book series: RestoringCare to American Healthcare  
  • Host: WeCanFixHealthcare.info 
Credentials as an Author & Authority
Having both an MD and an MBA, I have consulted for hospitals, public and private organizations, and governments. I can marry the tools of management, especially systems analysis, with the principles of good medical practice to diagnose and cure sick systems such as healthcare. I was the Chief of Pediatric Cardiology at Children's Hospital of San Diego, University of Chicago and University of New Mexico. Now I am Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Pathology and Decision Science at the Universityof New Mexico and serve as Consumer Advocate member on the Board of Directorsof the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange where I advise on public policy for healthcare. I prefer to be called Dr. Deane and welcome your thoughts about American healthcare through WeCanFixHealthcare.info (not dot com.) 

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sbpra (November 17, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 328 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1681813815
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1681813813
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.06 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.82 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Deane Waldman

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Deane Waldman, MD, MBA is the author of Curing the Cancer in U.S. Healthcare and eleven other books as well as more than 250 articles and monographs. After nearly fifty years as a pediatric cardiologist, educator, researcher, medical administrator and public policy advisor, Dr. Deane is in a unique position to help readers break free of the nightmare we call our healthcare system.

Dr. Deane studied medicine and trained at Yale, Chicago Medical School, Mayo Clinic, Northwestern, and Harvard, and earned his MBA from Anderson Graduate Schools. As a consultant for hospitals, public and private organizations, as well as governments, Dr. Deane combines systems analysis and other management tools with the principles of good medical practice to diagnose and effectively treat sick systems, such as healthcare.

Dr. Deane was Chief of Pediatric Cardiology at The Children’s Hospital of San Diego, The University of Chicago, and The University of New Mexico. He was also Director of Center for Healthcare Policy at Texas Public Policy Foundation and member of Board of Directors of New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange. Now Dr. Deane is Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Pathology and Decision Science. His proposals for StatesCare and market-based medicine have the potential to revolutionize healthcare in the U.S. Learn more and get free bonus items at www.deanewaldman.com.

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alex lubarsky
5.0 out of 5 stars Things we don't want at a price we can'f afford!
Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2019
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If you like socialism, and want to keep your socialism, you're not going to like this book. Packed with well researched facts, and vivid stories of real people who have been misled and crushed under the obese, intrusive, bureaucratic and unaffordable Frankenstein monster that is the ACA. If you are passionate about restoring true health to our nation, and if you're frustrated by the government take over of our system of care, you must read and study this amazing book.
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Ellie P.
3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting read and vouch for a change in the system
Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2016
I received a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.
Dr. Deane Waldman seems to be a very intelligent and very kind man, who spent many years working against a system that is not built to help the end user.
Having worked in the healthcare system myself, both as patient and as employee, he is absolutely right. Insurance companies have repeatedly put patients and doctors at fatal risk, both legally and literally. This is their current modus operandi. And it needs to stop.
We do have a cancerous growth in our society, and we should do all we can to cut the growth away.
However, we have differing opinions on how to do it.
Dr. Deane Waldman wants to dismantle the ACA and go to a single payer system. The problem with this is why insurance companies were created in the first place: some doctors just do not charge the same across the board. There is very little regulation in place
My personal opinion is that while Dr. Waldman may not take advantage of the patient in a single payer system, pseudoscience and immoral doctors will, and have. Which is why instead of a single payer system, I would prefer a socialized healthcare system. Dr. Waldman speaks of the ills of this system but chooses the weakest of countries (UK) as example. While earlier in his book he speaks of Norway, Sweden and Japan, all who have a socialized system that works, he chooses to reprimand the British one, because it is the easiest to reprimand. Politicians there have eaten away at the earlier idea proposed in the 1970s, and conditions have even changed for the better compared to when his example (his mother’s experience) have occurred.
Along with his attack other countries socialized systems, his attack on Medicaid and Medicare are weak, and sometimes fallacious. He cites a study done in my home state of Oregon, where people on Medicare are sicker than those on private insurances or without insurance. This study cannot be used to prove his point, since the variables known for being on Medicare are poverty(not good for the health), children (usually lacking in the immunity sector), and people who have finally been accepted as previously non-insured people, who do not get diagnosed with serious conditions because they could not go before. These variables are not discussed at all, and he moves along in his train of thought as if the study should stand on its own. As a person of science, I was disappointed that he didn’t remark that correlation does not imply causation. But he does that. And through other instances of these types of fallacies, I was disheartened towards his cause.
The book is a very easy read and, especially within the first half and parts of the second, I can totally agree with Dr. Waldman. But I do not agree with his solution at all.
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Julie D
4.0 out of 5 stars Book is a wake-up call
Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2016
I am very glad to have had the opportunity as a reviewer to read this book (I received a copy of this book for an honest review). Being a supporter of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) (Obamacare), I would not have intentionally gone searching for a book on this topic. But with an election coming up and Republican candidates threatening to do away with Obamacare, I thought I would use the book to educate myself in order to sort through the various campaign opinions on the ACA.

This book did not disappoint. It is very well written. Although it deals with a very complicated and serious topic it is very engaging, easy to follow and full of stories from Dr. Waldman’s own experience as a pediatric cardiologist. Dr. Waldman is very clear about his opinion on not only the United States’ healthcare system, which led to his decision to discontinue practicing medicine, but those of others countries. He is a wealth of information and backs up his statements and anecdotal information with a lengthy “Notes” section where he provides explanations and additional sources of information. If at times this physician’s passion makes you question his objectivity, excellent notes and reputable references are provided to verify the information.

I personally could have done without information beyond the facts and opinions on the healthcare system, such as techniques to help the reader think for his or herself. And I found that towards the end of the book facts and opinions had been emphasized enough. Despite this minor criticism this book has been well written with a lot of passion and I would highly recommend it to anyone who cares about the future of the American healthcare system, no matter their opinion of how well the system is currently functioning. It made me realize that I have had blinders on because I was wanting the ACA to succeed. In my own small world I was seeing and hearing bits and pieces of the system problems described by Dr. Waldman but needed something, like this book, to make me step back and take a broad look to see the “cancer”.
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