February 22, 2025
DOGE Can Balance Budget and Save Health Care
By Deane Waldman
DOGE can accomplish two triumphs with one bold act. Musk and his team can balance the U.S. budget and simultaneously fix health care. Defund the wasteful, unnecessary, illegitimate, and yet ever-expanding federal healthcare regulatory apparatus.
Healthcare is distinctly different from health (or medical) care. Healthcare as one word is a massive regulatory, economic system with tens of millions of employees (mostly bureaucrats) that cost American taxpayers $4.9 trillion in 2024. That amount is more than the entire GDP of Japan.
Health care, two words, is the work product, the personal service, of a professional care provider that she or he exchanges for financial compensation. People have no more right to health care than they have a right to a lawyer’s time or an accountant’s calculations. In contrast to many millions involved in healthcare, health...care involves (or should involve) just two: patient and provider.
By its very name, DOGE is tasked with improving dollar efficiency of the federal government. In healthcare, dollar efficiency would mean spending that produces care in any form for patients. Money that is spent on anything other than patient care services or goods is inefficient spending, whether fraud, corruption, or overhead.
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