Is Obamacare the Answer? / Gatekeeper Press (ePub)

Dr. Deane Waldman, MD MBA is Director of the Center for Health Care Policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation in Austin, Texas. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange as "e;Consumer Advocate,"e; and is Adjunct Scholar (Healthcare) for the Rio Grande Foundation, a public policy think tank in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Dr. Deane is Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Pathology and Decision Science at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Deane has authored over 150 academic publications and more than 350 lay articles and blogs on both the practice of medicine and on healthcare strategy along with eight books offering both the diagnosis and curative treatment for our sick healthcare system. Background facts on the author include schooling and training at: Yale, Chicago Medical School, Mayo Clinic, Northwestern, Harvard and Anderson Management Schools. He has been Chief of Section at San Diego Children's Hospital, University of Chicago, and University of New Mexico, as well as a practicing pediatric cardiologist for over 35 years. Dr. Deane's past - both professional and personal - has exposed him to every aspect of health care: practicing medicine, administration, research, teaching, as well as being a critically ill patient himself. Combining those experiences with his MBA knowledge along with his research in management and business, he shares insights into the root causes of why the healthcare system continues to fail patients, nurses, doctors and our country. Most important, he explains what you can and must do to FIX (cure) our sick American healthcare system.