What David Goldhill has said about Medical innovation funding
3 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 Medical innovation funding 3 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 argues that because the US has the only free-enterprise healthcare system, almost all global medical innovation is designed for the American market.
“that's why almost all of the innovation in health care on Earth is designed for the American market”
Proven Podcast: Healthcare Fixed: No Insurance Needed, Same Doctors, 60% Less - David Goldhill (Sep 9, 2026) · Listen from 2:33
Goldhill argues Americans pay 70 to 80 percent of the cost of innovation while receiving a small fraction of the benefit.
“We're paying 70%, 80% of the cost of innovation and getting 3%, 4%, 5% of the benefit, maybe 10% of the benefit”
Proven Podcast: Healthcare Fixed: No Insurance Needed, Same Doctors, 60% Less - David Goldhill (Sep 9, 2026) · Listen from 7:11
Goldhill argues that adopting a British- or Canadian-style system would destroy the engine of medical innovation.
“If we just go to a sort of socialist system, a British-style system, a Canadian system, we'll simply destroy the engine of innovation”
Proven Podcast: Healthcare Fixed: No Insurance Needed, Same Doctors, 60% Less - David Goldhill (Sep 9, 2026) · Listen from 6:59
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.
David Goldhill on other topics
- Third-party payment in healthcare · 3 quotes
- Sesame (healthcare marketplace) · 2 quotes
- Healthcare in the United States · 2 quotes
- Medicaid · 1 quote
- Hospital business model · 1 quote
- Hospice care · 1 quote
- Telemedicine · 1 quote
- Artificial intelligence · 1 quote