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Deane Waldman

Deane Waldman

Aug 17, 2026

12:39
And they couldn't, right? And the answer
12:41
was they couldn't.
12:43
But it still didn't get the message out that the system doesn't work because of the way it was designed.
12:55
And so what we need to do is change how the money flows in health care.
13:03
In a very real sense, it's that simple.
13:06
And so the book goes through, and by the way, very important, the book was Become an Empowered Patient, was written for the general public, was not written for other MDs, MBAs, PhDs, policy wonks, politicians, because The book says we, the people, whom I like to call we, the patients, we, the people, need to take control of our own health care spending, which means we need to take it away from the third parties because, after all, it is our money.
13:45
It's not the government's money.

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