Lobbyists for the health industry are close to a victory over consumer groups in a dispute about when patients should be told their digital medical re...
The Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Fred Schulte | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
Editor's note: This story is published in conjunction with American University's Investigative Reporting Workshop. The government's $45 billion pl...
Deane Waldman | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
When President Obama gave his speech on health care, he spoke as though the phrase personal responsibility did not exist.
Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
President Obama earns poor to failing grades from privacy advocates who claim that his administration is neglecting privacy and civil-liberties issue...
Deane Waldman | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
Everyone knows that you cannot cure a sick anything -- patient or system - without a correct diagnosis. What is the diagnosis for sick, "broken" healthcare?
Deane Waldman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
Do we have the right to make ourselves unhealthy? I would answer, Yes! That is part of being free.
Deane Waldman | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
Washington is guilty of management malpractice. Simply throwing more money into the waste of the middle will not fix health care.
Deane Waldman | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
What to ask our Representatives at town hall meeting, and in letters or emails.
Deane Waldman | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living
Given a fundamentally flawed, unsupportable health care system, we need a new one rather than changing where some dollars flow and adding new dollars that we don't have in the first place.
Deane Waldman | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
We need an extended, all-media national dialogue, not violent, partisan town hall meetings in response to a Plan devised behind closed doors.
Mitchell Kapor | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
Information technology can play a crucial role in reversing the escalation of health care costs.
Deane Waldman | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
Complexity is considered bad in most business activities because it reduces efficiency and therefore costs money. In health care it is worse.
Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
Private health-insurance and pharmaceutical industry lobbyists are threatening the health and stability of America. Some argue that this is equivalent to crimes against humanity.
Deane Waldman | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics
TennCare was a single payer approach that was tried in Tennessee in 1994. It nearly bankrupted the state, forced the governor to raise taxes, and ultimately required rationing care.
Deane Waldman | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics
Do not accept the glowing rhetoric of the Bill's advocates or the equally passionate bombast of its opponents. Put aside your personal animus toward who is speaking for or against AAHCA.
Deane Waldman | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics
Other countries are struggling with health care system problems as big as ours. I do not suggest that health care is insoluble.
Deane Waldman | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
Without a totally new health care system, cutting health care costs means reducing usage -- rationing. You have to decide just one thing: who will be the rationer?
Deane Waldman | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
ObamaCare is a boondoggle, plain and simple. It is a political approach coupled with a self-proclaimed solution for a medical problem. It is snake oil, not an evidence-based treatment.
Deane Waldman | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
Health care is considered so sick in the USA that many believe anything is better than what we have now, so let's pass ObamaCare. At least, it is a ...
Deane Waldman | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
Recall the commercial: "More taste! Less Filling!" ObamaCare is "More Insurance! Less Care!"
Deane Waldman | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
The Obama Administration is considering implementing the pay-for-performance approach initiated by the British National Health Service (NHS). But that system has flaws.
Deane Waldman | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics
Can you have a "right to health care" without any responsibility: both by paying for it and by being an active partner in it?
Deane Waldman | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics
Obama has succumbed. The lure of the Dark Side was too powerful. Though he acknowledges that "our healthcare system is broken," he points the finger of shame at people: the doctors.
Jon Soltz | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics
Brian McGough knows the pain of navigating from Department of Defense medical care to Department of Veterans Affairs care all too well.
Dr. Anne Chapas | Posted 02.13.2009 | Living
I truly believe that quality health care is based on a partnership between the patient and the doctor that relies on common courtesy.
Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Emma Schwartz | Posted 11.13.2009 | Technology