What David Goldhill has said about Healthcare in the United States
2 quotes · 1 episode · Sep 9, 2026
David Goldhill, Founder and CEO of the healthcare marketplace Sesame, former entertainment executive, and author of Catastrophic Care, has been quoted on Healthcare in the United States 2 times in 1 episode of Proven Podcast, most recently on September 9, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Goldhill states that the US accounts for 40 percent of world healthcare spending while having 3 percent of world population.
“the United States is 40% of world health care spend. We're 3% of world population”
Proven Podcast: Healthcare Fixed: No Insurance Needed, Same Doctors, 60% Less - David Goldhill (Sep 9, 2026) · Listen from 4:51
Goldhill argues that government and insurance workers are trying to do well, and that incentives rather than villains cause the system's failures.
“People who work in insurance companies overwhelmingly are trying to do well. It's the problem is incentives always win”
Proven Podcast: Healthcare Fixed: No Insurance Needed, Same Doctors, 60% Less - David Goldhill (Sep 9, 2026) · Listen from 41:00
Episodes
Healthcare Fixed: No Insurance Needed, Same Doctors, 60% Less - David GoldhillProven Podcast · Sep 9, 2026 · 59 min
Charles Schwartz talks with Sesame founder David Goldhill about why American healthcare costs so much and how cash-price markets and telemedicine could lower costs.
Others on Healthcare in the United States
- Charles Schwartz · 1 quote
David Goldhill on other topics
- Third-party payment in healthcare · 3 quotes
- Medical innovation funding · 3 quotes
- Sesame (healthcare marketplace) · 2 quotes
- Medicaid · 1 quote
- Hospital business model · 1 quote
- Hospice care · 1 quote
- Telemedicine · 1 quote
- Artificial intelligence · 1 quote