Healthcare in the United States
Subject in Medicine
Healthcare in the United States has come up in 2 episodes across 2 podcasts in TMT, including Proven Podcast, Morbid. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
David GoldhillFounder and CEO of the healthcare marketplace Sesame, former entertainment executive, and author of Catastrophic Care
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
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
Charles SchwartzEntrepreneur and host of The Proven Podcast
Schwartz argues that doctors' incomes have eroded and many long-serving doctors seek to exit their practices.
“Doctors don't make what they used to make. they're they're nickel and dime and their insurance is astronomical”
Proven Podcast: Healthcare Fixed: No Insurance Needed, Same Doctors, 60% Less - David Goldhill (Sep 9, 2026) · Listen from 34:37
Coverage over time
Podcasts
- Proven Podcast · 1 episode
- Morbid · 1 episode
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.
Blanche Taylor Moore, The Oldest Woman on Death Row (Part 2)Morbid · Jul 2, 2026 · 1 h 7 min
Morbid hosts Alaina Urquhart and Ash Kelley conclude the case of Blanche Taylor Moore, who poisoned Reverend Dwight Moore with arsenic and was sentenced to death.