On this episode of The Beat, recorded live at ViVE 2024, David joins hosts Dr. Jessica Shepherd and Dr. Gautam Gulati to explain who uses the marketplace and how competition drives down prices on Sesame without compromising quality of care.
In 2009, David Goldhill’s father died of a hospital-acquired infection. And he realized that preventing medical errors was not an economic imperative in the American healthcare system.
In fact, our third-party payment system creates a misalignment of incentives, making insurers and governments the customer rather than the patients themselves.
So, David wrote a cover story for The Atlantic entitled ‘How American Health Care Killed My Father’ which expanded into a book, Catastrophic Care: Why Everything We Think We Know about Health Care Is Wrong.
Since then, David has become a leading voice for healthcare advocacy and founded Sesame, a company that is revolutionizing healthcare with a direct-pay marketplace that delivers high quality healthcare at half the price.
On this episode of The Beat, David joins hosts Dr. Jessica Shepherd and Dr. Gautam Gulati to explain who uses the marketplace and how competition drives down prices on Sesame without compromising quality of care.
David discusses what attracts providers to the Sesame model and describes the criteria for joining the platform as well as its rigorous rating system.
Listen in for insight on maintaining continuity of care in telehealth and learn how David is bringing a revolution of consumerism to healthcare in the US and around the world.
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