If the government Plan for Healthcare describes only the effects in healthcare and fails to consider other, outside consequences, reject it. Accept no substitutes.
Deane Waldman | Posted 09.09.2008 | Living
Labels, stereotypes, abbreviations, shorthands, and heuristics are bad trade-offs. They speed communication and muddy it at the same time. Worse, onc...
Deane Waldman | Posted 09.03.2008 | Home
We are forming a new singing group called the Four Anythings. We sing about healthcare and you can join in. Remember the song "Anything you can do I ...
Deane Waldman | Posted 07.20.2008 | Home
We all need to be systems thinkers. Many are, but not the bureaucrats and regulators in Washington and State capitals. You may call them systems Stink...
Deane Waldman | Posted 07.07.2008 | Living
"Fixes that fail" - a delightful, euphonious and depressing phrase. Delightful because it is so useful. Euphonious because of alliteration and scansio...
Deane Waldman | Posted 07.01.2008 | Home
In his movie Sicko, Michael Moore dramatized the dysfunctions in our healthcare system. What it will take to cure Sicko? The first step, part of my ...
Deane Waldman | Posted 06.25.2008 | Living
No one controls or even "is responsible" for the failing healthcare system, and it's not fixed by punishing or changing the people. It's fixed by changing the processes within the system.
Deane Waldman | Posted 05.13.2008 | Home
Our medical malpractice system works against us. We cannot just tweak it. We must reject it and create a whole new one. What do we want to happen whe...
Reuters has a Q&A with John Travolta to promote his animated film "Bolt." At the end, they ask him...
WASHINGTON — An adviser to Barack Obama's...
Tina Fey graces the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair, and in an...
The Campaign Finance Institute (CFI)...
The following is Part I of Sean Penn's piece, Mountain of Snakes (Read Part II here) The
Reprinted with permission from Jason's email list Today, Randall Stross...
The seventies are back in a big way: shaggy hair, plaid prints and idealism have all...
On this Sunday's 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper has an interview with Olympic...
President-elect Barack Obama announced Monday that Robert Gates would remain as...
PALM DESERT, Calif. — Two men pulled guns and shot each other to death in...
Winona Ryder has been accused of losing £81,000 of...
It started with the fist bump seen 'round the world. Soon...
A revolutionary device that can harness...
Deane Waldman | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics